INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION & DISASTER RESPONSE
Air Traffic Control Modernization
Within one year, the responsible federal agency must publish a complete inventory of obsolete or unsupported air-traffic-control systems, critical cybersecurity weaknesses, controller staffing gaps, and facilities at elevated failure risk.
Each modernization project must have a public baseline for cost, schedule, operational capability, responsible official, testing plan, transition plan, and retirement date for the legacy system.
Safety-critical replacements must use staged testing and parallel operation rather than an untested nationwide conversion.
The Inspector General must report to Congress at least twice each year on missed milestones, cost growth, vendor performance, cybersecurity, staffing, and operational failures.
A project that materially exceeds its approved cost or schedule must receive an independent review before additional expansion funding is released.
FEMA and Disaster Response
Every federally supported disaster must identify one accountable coordinating official and publish which federal, state, and local entity owns each major response function.
Applications for immediate household assistance must be acknowledged within 48 hours. An initial eligibility decision should be issued within seven days when records are complete, and other individual-assistance decisions within 30 days, subject to documented disaster conditions.
A denial must state the missing fact or rule, evidence relied upon, correction process, and appeal deadline. Applicants must have online, telephone, and in-person methods to submit evidence and check status.
Emergency procurement must record the vendor, price, competition used or emergency justification, deliverables, conflicts, and responsible approving official. Fraud investigations must distinguish knowing deception from good-faith errors made during displacement.
An independent after-action report must be published within 180 days after the emergency phase, covering response times, unmet needs, deaths and injuries, communications, procurement, fraud, reconstruction delays, and corrective actions.
Critical Infrastructure Modernization
Owners of federally funded bridges, dams, drinking-water systems, ports, freight corridors, aviation facilities, and electric infrastructure must complete a standardized condition and risk assessment at least every four years. Assets designated as high risk require annual review.
Assessments must identify remaining service life, deferred maintenance, known safety defects, climate and disaster exposure, cybersecurity where applicable, estimated repair cost, and consequence of failure.
Federal capital funding should prioritize correction of documented high-consequence hazards and preservation of existing assets before lower-priority expansion projects.
A public dashboard must show project status, cost, schedule, condition rating, responsible owner, inspections, and unresolved high-risk findings, with security-sensitive details appropriately protected.
Material falsification of an inspection or condition report triggers funding suspension, independent review, recovery of misspent funds, and criminal referral where applicable.
AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT & MODERNIZATION FUND
Building and updating what America needs.
The United States should build new infrastructure and capacity while upgrading what already exists. The program covers transportation, housing, utilities, public facilities, domestic production, new American businesses, resilience, and complete replacement of an existing asset when repair is no longer the responsible choice.
Annual Funding Ceiling
Congress may authorize up to $700 billion annually for the American Development and Modernization Fund. The amount is a maximum inside the total federal spending ceiling, not additional spending outside it and not an automatic entitlement to spend. Existing qualifying federal infrastructure, housing, regional-development, and industrial-development spending must be consolidated and counted once inside this amount. This includes direct appropriations, formula funding, grants, subsidies, loans and loan subsidies, loan guarantees, tax expenditures, insurance support, public-private financing, and other federal financial assistance when the primary purpose qualifies under this fund. A qualifying cost may not remain outside the ceiling merely because it is administered by another agency or delivered through a state, locality, Tribal Nation, territory, nonprofit, cooperative, farmer, rancher, or business. Costs that do not qualify remain in their applicable operating or benefit category and may not be relabeled as development spending.
National and Jurisdiction Accounts
$100 billion: Interstate and national projects and systems, including multistate transportation, power, water, communications, ports, logistics, and other projects that cannot be handled fairly through one jurisdiction.
$600 billion: Deposited annually into 437 dedicated jurisdiction accounts.
435 shares: One share for each seat in the United States House of Representatives. Each state receives one share for every House seat apportioned to that state.
One collective Tribal Nations share: Held for qualified projects serving federally recognized Tribal Nations.
One combined Federal District, Territories and Federal Property share: Held for the District of Columbia, United States territories, and qualified federal-property projects.
At $600 billion divided by 437 accounts, each annual share is approximately $1.373 billion. A deposit creates available capacity in the account, not an automatic project payment.
Half Existing, Half New
Half of the entire $700 billion annual authorization is reserved for existing assets and systems. This includes repair, modernization, expansion, rehabilitation, demolition, and complete replacement or rebuilding when the old asset can no longer be responsibly repaired.
The other half is reserved for new infrastructure, housing, utilities, facilities, industrial capacity, and other new qualified development. The $100 billion national allocation is divided $50 billion for existing systems and $50 billion for new systems. The $600 billion jurisdiction allocation is divided $300 billion for existing systems and $300 billion for new projects.
State and Local Coverage
A state’s account must serve state, county, city, town, village, regional, and other qualified public projects within that state. The state may not treat the account as money reserved only for state-government projects.
Dedicated Accounts and No Use-It-or-Lose-It Rule
Each jurisdiction’s annual amount is deposited into its dedicated account. Unused principal carries forward permanently and is added to later annual deposits. The jurisdiction may accumulate money for a major project and is not required to invent, accelerate, or approve a project merely to avoid losing the money.
The existing-system and new-project halves remain separately accounted. Funds may not be borrowed against, pledged, collateralized, diverted, or transferred into an ordinary operating budget, pension, debt payment, tax reduction, or unrelated program.
Actual authorized net earnings remain in the applicable account and compound. Every fee, expense, investment, loss, commitment, release, expenditure, and balance must be publicly reported.
Emergency Funding Is Separate
An emergency is funded through the Strict Emergency Fund, not through the $700 billion American Development and Modernization Fund. A project does not become an emergency merely because ordinary planning or maintenance was delayed.
No Duplicate Federal Funding
A federal-property project may use the combined account only when the same cost is not already funded through an agency budget or the $100 billion national allocation. The same project, invoice, or expense may not receive duplicate federal payment.
Eligible Projects
roads, bridges, rail, airports, ports, public transit, and freight systems;
drinking-water, wastewater, flood-control, and stormwater systems;
electrical generation, transmission, distribution, grid security, and energy reliability;
broadband, communications, cybersecurity, and critical digital infrastructure;
construction and rehabilitation of housing where evidence establishes a supply, safety, quality, or affordability need;
domestic manufacturing, strategic supply chains, industrial sites, and new or expanding American businesses;
schools, hospitals, emergency facilities, public buildings, and essential community infrastructure;
rural, agricultural, tribal, and geographically isolated infrastructure;
maintenance, modernization, resilience, and replacement of failing public assets.
Repairing and maintaining useful existing infrastructure ordinarily receives priority over unnecessary replacement or expansion.
Public and Private Funding
Public infrastructure may receive grants, formula funding, or shared federal financing. Revenue-producing private projects should ordinarily receive loans, loan guarantees, equity participation, royalties, or another mechanism returning value to the public. A private grant requires a written finding that the documented public benefit cannot reasonably be achieved through repayable financing.
Recipients may not use program money for stock buybacks, executive bonuses, mergers, political contributions, offshoring, or unrelated operating expenses.
Project Approval
Every funded project must identify the public need; project owner and every beneficial owner; designs, costs, schedules, responsible contractors, and material suppliers; expected useful life and maintenance; measurable outcomes; alternatives considered; and the complete federal, state, local, and private funding structure.
Projects are evaluated by need, measurable public benefit, readiness, total life-cycle cost, safety, durability, reliability, housing or economic impact, and the ability to complete the work.
Competitive Pricing & American Capacity
Government may not pay more than the ordinary net public or commercial price for comparable goods, services, labor, or construction without a publicly documented justification. Competitive bidding is required whenever reasonably possible. Bids, contract amendments, change orders, ownership information, and final payments must be public.
American workers, materials, manufacturing, and suppliers receive preference when reasonably available and able to meet the required quality, safety, and delivery standards.
Payment, Proof & Final Holdback
Money remains in the dedicated account until release through verified stages:
A published plan identifying the public purpose, cost estimate, completion schedule, measurable benefit, responsible owner, and maintenance plan.
Verified design, permits, procurement, financing, and site readiness.
Independent verification of construction or implementation milestones before each progress payment.
Inspection and proof that the completed work performs as promised.
A final audit and release of the retained balance only after acceptance.
Funding is released by verified milestones, not merely by an announcement, promise, or contract signature. Each milestone requires itemized invoices and proof of payment; photographic, technical, or physical evidence; independent inspection; updated cost and schedule information; and confirmation that materials and construction meet contract standards. At least 10% of payment remains withheld until final independent inspection and acceptance.
Auditing, Fraud & Public Results
Every project appears on a public dashboard showing funding, ownership, contractors, payroll by position, payments, milestones, delays, inspections, changes, and final outcomes. Continuing financial and performance audits are required. A failed audit freezes additional payments until deficiencies are corrected.
Knowingly false invoices, phantom employees, nonexistent purchases, inferior substituted materials, kickbacks, bid-rigging, price-fixing, and diversion of funds require full restitution, clawbacks, removal from the project, government debarment, and criminal prosecution when the elements are proven. The approved nonviolent white-collar formula of one year of secure confinement for every $150,000 intentionally stolen applies after conviction, together with restitution and asset recovery.
Unused account balances carry forward and remain available for future qualified projects. They do not become an agency entitlement, do not excuse a failed project, and do not increase the $700 billion annual deposit ceiling. Money that is unsupported or fraudulently claimed remains unspent or is recovered. Programs and projects are measured by completed housing, reduced failures, transportation capacity, service reliability, business formation, domestic production, safety, durability, final cost, and delivery time. Consistently failed projects are corrected, transferred, consolidated, or ended.
Core MPA standard: Build new things. Upgrade what still serves America. Replace what no longer can. Deposit the money fairly, release it only by verified progress, preserve unused balances, and prove every result.
PRE-POSITIONING & INTERSTATE DISASTER OPERATIONS
FEMA and participating states should maintain regional caches of food, water, medical supplies, temporary shelter, communications equipment, generators, fuel equipment, and other essential emergency materials.
Inventories must be:
Independently audited.
Rotated before expiration.
Geographically distributed.
Protected against theft and deterioration.
Matched to regional risks.
Available under written deployment rules.
Federal, state, tribal, territorial, county, and municipal responders should use interoperable communications, common resource-request procedures, reciprocal credential recognition, and pre-negotiated mutual-aid agreements.
Regional exercises must occur at least annually. Failures discovered during an exercise or disaster must receive responsible officials and corrective deadlines.
NATIONAL STRATEGIC RESERVES & SUPPLY RESILIENCE
The United States should maintain carefully sized strategic reserves of materials whose sudden loss could cripple national defense, healthcare, energy, communications, transportation, food supply, or essential industry.
Covered reserves may include:
Critical medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients.
Medical equipment and protective supplies.
Transformers, breakers, relays, and grid components.
Semiconductor inputs and selected finished components.
Fuel-related materials.
Critical minerals.
Water-treatment chemicals.
Emergency communications equipment.
Other long-lead items supported by a documented national-risk assessment.
Each reserve must have a lawful purpose, minimum and maximum inventory, rotation schedule, storage plan, release authority, replenishment deadline, and independent audit.
Public reporting should disclose cost, general readiness, expiration losses, and replenishment performance while protecting details that would materially assist an enemy.
Reserves should support domestic production and emergency readiness. They must not become warehouses for politically favored products or permanent subsidies for failed companies.
Related policies: Federal Spending & National Debt; Energy; Government Operations, Competition & Public Assets; Public Health & Emergency Powers.
Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.
Originally published: August 15, 2026.
Last updated: October 4, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.6.