AI Isn't Enough—America Needs to Invest in Infrastructure, Too

Over the past two decades, innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, and research have defined and fueled America's economic growth. These advances sparked a digital revolution, from the iPhone and rapid expansion of the internet to the widespread digitalization of our economy, which fundamentally reshaped how we live, work, and communicate.

But the rise of artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, electrification, supply-chain resilience and domestic reshoring has changed the equation. Our digital economy now depends on physical systems every bit as much as software and innovation. The defining challenge of the next decade won't be whether we can invent the future, it will be whether we can build it and whether we can do so with the same ambition and confidence that once defined America.

How Investment in Physical Infrastructure Transformed the Country

The infrastructure we know and rely on today predominantly traces its roots to the decades immediately following World War II. Between the mid-1940s and the construction of the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s, ...