Vote No, Take the Photo, Claim the Bridge Credit
In the bipartisan-infrastructure-law universe, Rep. Pete Stauber plays the oldest card in the accountability deck: he votes no, then takes the photo. The concrete doesn’t pause. The ribbon doesn’t stall. Only the credit gets rebranded, one camera-ready appearance at a time.
And here’s the logistics-based library-card math: “opposition” doesn’t stop the checks—it just changes who gets to smile on the final paperwork. So the public infrastructure still arrives, but the messaging crew treats the ribbon-cutting like a performance review: score higher if the caption looks good, even if the policy vote didn’t.