Trump administration wants to sell National and Dulles airports, other assets around U.S.

[MiniMe]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/trump-administration-wants-to-sell-national-and-dulles-airports-other-assets-around-us/2018/02/12/3cff381e-100a-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81_story.html?utm_term=.bbd3cf908df7&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

The Trump administration is making a push to sell off federal assets as part of its infrastructure plan released Monday.

Among the targets: Reagan National and Dulles International airports and two major parkways serving the Washington region, as well as power assets around the country, according to a copy of the proposal.

Power transmission assets from the Tennessee Valley Authority; the Southwestern Power Administration, which sells power in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas; the Western Area Power Administration; and the Bonneville Power Administration, covering the Pacific northwest, were cited for potential divestiture. The Washington Aqueduct, which supplies drinking water in D.C. and Northern Virginia, also is on the list.

“The Federal Government owns and operates certain infrastructure that would be more appropriately owned by State, local, or private entities,” the Trump plan says. It calls for giving federal agencies “authority to divest of Federal assets where the agencies can demonstrate an increase in value from the sale would optimize the taxpayer value.”

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Wonder how much of our country will be sold to foreigners?

[MrsCoffee]

1. Russians get priority.

[Botany]

2. The shock doctrine

I can't take it anymore .... when will this madness end?

[2naSalit]

11. +1

[Hortensis]

3. Grrrr....

Those belong to us. Don't know about you guys, but I don't have the money to be a valued customer to private airports.

Well, don't know our options, but our nation needs these services and therefore they won't work properly privatized. They'll not just want but need tax dollar investments and that's our leverage. Who pays for security? But if for legal and practical reasons we can't control funding and regulation until they beg us to take them back, we can always build new, more modern national airports instead of giving taxpayer dollars to update the old ones.

[lsewpershad]

4. Mmhhmm

Maybe to trump org so he can have his name emblazoned in front.

[Blue_true]

5. Do those idiots realize.

That all those assets were built to promote economic development in the regions that they serve and have done that to the tune of many trillions of dollars gained? Clueless idiots.

[MiniMe]

6. And security

Don't these idiots realize that selling an airport in the nations capital is a security risk? Sorry, forgot who I was talking about for a moment, of course they don't care about that.

[MiniMe]

7. Well, many here kept asking where he was going to get the money for the infrastructure plan

They are selling off assets to pay for it. I can't imagine that Congress would go along with it, of course, with this congress, you never know

[doc03]

8. Next he will be selling Yellowstone to Haliburton. nt

[Leith]

9. Thank You for Saying Just "National" in the OP Title

I used to live in Alexandria and work in Arlington. I had to turn away when the subway passed through that station.

[MiniMe]

10. That was the title on the article

I am also local, and hate that they turned it into National Reagan