Having worked some time in Govt., it's my guess they set the money aside for States to request grants so to speak. If it fits bureaucrats then money assigned under red-tape.
Then what happens is the State blows the money on
useless capital & equipment, where $ is spent on their "infrastructure" 100 man-hours are dedicated into projects that take one in the private sector. Once they figure they have something, they'll go onto spend another set of 100s man-hours to figure out they were doing it wrong, because they didn't understand it. Then they'll blow another 100s more to recognize it's over their heads, and then private-sector contractors are hired. Then the project takes 100 man-hours to 1 man-hour private to complete, all while they entertain unions.
They'll also spend the money on useless programs and software. They'll also lie about how the money is spent, even within their requests, ask me how I know. What $ was supposed to go over here ends up over there to suit political & personal desires.
End of the day this in-structure business is code for achieving more govt. capital and control of YOU.
Silly govt. Wholly fuck, there was one time this uneducated guy recognized what all the educated were doing wrong for a BIG ASS PROGRAM. I explained the accounting and what was missing..............they were the "specialists", probably 20 of them earning well above my paycheck...........Then came crickets, surely the little guy writing the logic for this thing with a fraction of formal education doesn't know anything.
So they implicated the code and guess what, it broke the system and created great chaos. They had to undo 10s of thousands of records, and had to develop & maintain a new system to account for the errors they'd have to correct at some point when it works, a full cluster fuck. At that point my hands were washed of it.
Months later they hired a contractor to the tune of MILLIONS, because I was right, they did it wrong and they still didn't understand why. Somehow these guys earning 100 an hour didn't understand credits and debits, all they saw was one side and didn't account for the other

Nothing from nothing is still nothing
