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Government infrastructure spending on multi-year locked-in budgets provides guaranteed non-discretionary steel demand independent of stock market sentiment

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"While consumer spending and tech earnings contract during dangerous market environments, public sector infrastructure spending operates on multi-year, locked-in budgets. Highway, bridge, rail, and port upgrades funded through government infrastructure initiatives provide guaranteed, non-discretionary steel demand."

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