Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts said in interviews in late March, "I don't think there's ever been a disaster this widespread in Nebraska. Obviously we've got a lot of recovery left ahead of us. It's going to be a long road for us to rebuild our infrastructure and get people back in their homes."
Trump, after all, had been a real estate developer, knew how the construction process worked, dealt with state and local governments, and said that fixing American infrastructure was a big goal of his administration.
In 2015, even before he even announced he was running, Trump tweeted, "The only one to fix the infrastructure of our country is me." On the campaign trail, Trump said he would "At least double" Hillary Clinton's $275 billion in infrastructure spending.
In early 2018, he sent Congress an infrastructure plan that included $200 billion in federal funds to stimulate more than $1.5 trillion in spending from local and state governments and private entities over a decade.
Whether because of his obsession with the Mueller investigation, the failure to replace Obamacare, or the wall-building imbroglio, neither Trump nor Congress has yet rolled up its sleeves to work on infrastructure spending.
Why has infrastructure spending moved to the back of the line? First and foremost, the House chamber is now controlled by Democrats who will be reticent to help Trump achieve any success.
The president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have indicated they are still talking about some infrastructure deal, but most see it as unlikely to happen, especially if Trump uses the Mueller investigation against the Democrats, and it already appears he is going down that road. "Is it time for infrastructure? Democrats and the administration are very far apart," James Pethokoukis, an economic analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, said on CNBC in late March.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-happened-to-trumps-promise-to-rebuild-america-midwest-flooding/
Trump, after all, had been a real estate developer, knew how the construction process worked, dealt with state and local governments, and said that fixing American infrastructure was a big goal of his administration.
In 2015, even before he even announced he was running, Trump tweeted, "The only one to fix the infrastructure of our country is me." On the campaign trail, Trump said he would "At least double" Hillary Clinton's $275 billion in infrastructure spending.
In early 2018, he sent Congress an infrastructure plan that included $200 billion in federal funds to stimulate more than $1.5 trillion in spending from local and state governments and private entities over a decade.
Whether because of his obsession with the Mueller investigation, the failure to replace Obamacare, or the wall-building imbroglio, neither Trump nor Congress has yet rolled up its sleeves to work on infrastructure spending.
Why has infrastructure spending moved to the back of the line? First and foremost, the House chamber is now controlled by Democrats who will be reticent to help Trump achieve any success.
The president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have indicated they are still talking about some infrastructure deal, but most see it as unlikely to happen, especially if Trump uses the Mueller investigation against the Democrats, and it already appears he is going down that road. "Is it time for infrastructure? Democrats and the administration are very far apart," James Pethokoukis, an economic analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, said on CNBC in late March.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-happened-to-trumps-promise-to-rebuild-america-midwest-flooding/
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