It’s just a way to make “planting trees” appealing to progressives.
You are probably correct.
The problem is that the COST/ actual tree that gets planted will be approximately $25,000/tree.
Seriously, I bet when the GAO takes the $3.5 Billion and then divides that by the actual number of trees that are eventually planted, it will equal some crazy amount like that per tree.
They will have a big ceremony in some place like the inner city of Detroit or Baltimore where the plant a couple Maple saplings. All the brothers will show up for the nationally televised planting. The congress critter will be awarded a chrome plated shovel.
Two years later 75% of the trees will be dead because no one watered them.