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Democrats Say Trump Will Work With Them On A “Big, Bold” Infrastructure Plan. Great.
Now how about a big, bold immigration plan?
Don’t get us wrong. We love infrastructure spending. It’s badly needed. Things are falling apart. It’ll give Americans new airports and bridges and smoother highways. Better water treatment, better broadband access, better power grid. It’ll create jobs. And it can probably only happen in the scale being discussed under a Republican president, because under a Democrat, Republicans in Congress will all of a sudden start getting all fussy about deficit spending again. (Which they are kind of anyway, but more in a “let’s see how he pulls this off”, than an “up in arms” way…)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pegs the target at $2-trillion, over 25-years. And he says Trump insisted on that number. (It’s not clear if this is meant to be direct investment by the government, or a rekindling of the concept of public-private partnerships, where government spends significantly less, and instead incentivizes local governments to build partnerships with private business, which is where most of the money would come in). Anyway, here’s how Schumer describes it:
