he following quote refers to the 2009 fiscal stimulus, which included about $150 B. of government spending for "shovel-ready" projects:

"The original plan called for putting "shovels in the ground" within 90 days. But it often took six more months to a year before most of the projects were under construction...Weatherization, for example, was billed as the low-hanging fruit of the clean-energy movement. But states are still sitting on roughly a billion dollars in unused grant money because of a tortured bureaucracy, in which the federal government paid the states, which paid local nonprofits, which then hired the contractors." (New York Times, Feb. 11, 2012)

This quote refers to:

Group of answer choices

A. the political lag.

B. the information lag.

C. the decision lag.

D. the implementation lag.