I think this is probably one of the better, more practical ideas that I've seen. If the government has to consider whether the underlying technology has adequat

I think this is probably one of the better, more practical ideas that I've seen. If the government has to consider whether the underlying technology has adequately addressed memory safety issues (doesn't have to be at a language level, but that's obviously the easiest way), that puts pressure on them to fund projects that use memory safe approaches. That's billions of dollars that will get slowly steered in the right direction.