The $3.5 Trillion Build Better Act Only Explicitly Mentions $1.17 Trillion — More than $2 Trillion is Not Precisely Accounted For

I recently used my A.I. — more aptly a collection of A.I. — to analyze the $3.5 Trillion Build Better Act. Despite being 2,500 pages, the act was only released a week ago and is being rushed through Congress. So, as an expert in A.I. trying out some new programs, I thought this would be a good opportunity to field test my A.I. a bit. What it found is quite astonishing.

$1,178,500,858,844.37

That’s the exact amount of money my A.I. was able to find mentioned in the bill. Now of course some of that is for defining tax brackets. And items such as recurring costs are not fully counted by the A.I. But by and large the multi-billion and multi-million dollar expenditures seem to have been found by the A.I. And then there are, of course, items which are recurring. E.g. a reclamation fee of 7 cents is applied to every ton of material under section 109 of the federal and gas royalty management act.

This means that $2.3 Trillion is purportedly hidden in the fees of a 2,500 page bill which elected representatives have only had a week to review.

What is also concerning is that the bill does not appear to try to account for the missing $2.3 Trillion. The A.I. found pretty much every instance of money being mentioned, including revenue-generating instances. Needless to say, this bill leaves out a lot.

I’ll be publishing some of the A.I.-generated data soon. Reach out for inquiries or early access.