White House signals the demise of Trump's infrastructure plan

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White House signals the demise of Trump’s infrastructure plan
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/white-house-signals-the-demise-trumps-infrastructure-plan



05/10/18 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen

As recently as late March, Donald Trump headlined an event in Ohio to promote his infrastructure agenda. Six weeks later, the president’s plan appears to be dead.

At yesterday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked whether we’ll ever see legislation to advance Trump’s infrastructure initiative. She replied:

“We’re going to continue to look at ways to improve the nation’s infrastructure. But in terms of a specific piece of legislation, I’m not aware that that will happen by the end of the year.”

The comments only made official what most observers assumed to be true. Indeed, in early April, DJ Gribbin, the White House’s top infrastructure adviser, announced his resignation, apparently because he didn’t have much to do.

As we discussed at the time, Gribbin had worked for months to craft the president’s infrastructure plan, but once it was complete, the blueprint, designed to pass the Republican-led Congress, landed on Capitol Hill with a thud.

The reason was simple: it was based on bizarre arithmetic: Trump and his team insisted they could spur $1.5 trillion in investments by spending $200 billion, nearly all of which would come from cuts to other transportation priorities..................................................................

.....................Jon Chait joked yesterday, “As it turned out, we have reprised much of the excitement of the 1930s – presidents demanding the imprisonment of journalists and members of the opposing party, Nazis holding torchlight parades – but no infrastructure bill has materialized.”

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Other than giving my money to billionaires, the tax plan, rump and friends have accomplished

nothing as to legislation. That I know of anyway.

[marylandblue]

2. What will we do without infrastructure week?

Something good always happens during that week.

[riversedge]

4. I think Trump has had two or three of those weeks so far. then pufffff!

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Let's get real here,

the GOP/Trump so called infrastructure plan was and is. Replace Tech jobs in China,check,done. Oh btw,Trump gets his permits to build a new Tower/Casino project in China. The major project is a shovel ready work in progress. Eighty dollar Oil for the Saudi's and the Putin,in a effort to pay back all those illegal Campaign funds and Putin's efforts to steal the 2016 Elections.

Let's see,Oil at 80 bucks,check,Trump elected,check.

Forgot a biggie,Sheldon and Mairam Adelson get their new week end digs in Jerusalem,courtesy of the Sands Corporation and a 30 million dollar check to the RNC.

So far,it has cost the Palestinians 40 dead and Hundreds wounded,and our media is waving a blue and white flag and will go on War footing before nightfall.

Just what the hell is wrong with this picture?

And now we have Schumer joining this Cabal.