Six Reasons Why Trump's Infrastructure Plan Is in Trouble

Mar 1, 2017 · by Andrea Bernstein and John O'Connor

In his address to Congress Tuesday night, President Trump vowed to ask Congress "to approve legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure," including "new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, and railways gleaming across our beautiful land."

But, so far, there's no there there. Over a dozen sources in government, Congress, construction and academia told WNYC — on condition of anonymity because they don't want to antagonize the President — that they don't expect any infrastructure plan, anytime soon.

1. The details are slight to non-existent. In a one-hour address, Trump devoted 136 words to infrastructure. In a five-bullet press release, the White House described its commitment to infrastructure as #1: spending $1 trillion on infrastructure, #2-4: building pipelines, and #5: cutting environmental and other regulations.

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