Think big.
The United States Government used to think big. It built the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, and the Interstate System. Not too long ago it put a man on the Moon!
Recently, sad to say, not so much. Lately it seem the government is more interested in 'diversity, equity and inclusion, whatever that means. Oh! It also want to do something about climate change, and buy oil from Russia. It seems that the government is no longer interesting in building things rather it is interested in preventing others from building things. Of course it has to raise taxes to do it.
John Ringo, one of my favorite authors, wrote a series of books about a guy who thinks big. Not just big but Giganormous. He thinks that Cheops had insufficient ambition.
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Troy Rising (3 book series)
Elon Musk once said, regarding one of his projects, that making the damn thing wasn't the hard part. The hard part was getting the permits. So it is with Tyler, the protagonist in the story, might say the same thing. Dealing with politicians is a night mare, dealing with the news media, dealing with bankers is even worse.
Troy Rising was written as a 'near future' story in 2010. That was twelve years ago. 'Near Future' ten years ago right now. Ringo got an amazingly amount of stuff right but he neglected a few things, bitcoin for example. He deals with nanofabricators, graphene, artificial intelligences, space habitats, very well. He writes too well about how inept, incompetent, government could screw up everything it touches. He explains the media quite well.
I read it when it first came out, over a decade ago. I highly recommend it. It's one of my 'comfort reads' that I reread from time to time. I'm reading it now.