The federal-state-county framework makes bureaucracy quite entangled and difficult to move quickly. Then there’s also another layer of approximately 50,000 special purpose government district with unique forms (think water boards, utility entities etc) so there’s a tremendous amount of work navigating all these bodies and their respective turfs.

There’s also a huge lack of standardisation (e.g. imagine if there was a single national mandatory building code) so even if the Federal government wanted to actually do the work (and not outsource it to state level road authorities), they wouldn’t just be able to use a standard EV charger station design and contract it out for construction, they’d need to check the design for each and every county-level building and electricity code.

How would you improve governance? Strengthen national standardisation, merge states less than 5 million residents, centralise more power with federal and state governments and standardise and merge special purpose government entities, at least at the county level