Trump’s Infrastructure Fix: Let Somebody Else Spend $1 Trillion
In his first address as president-elect, Donald Trump played the platitudes. He spoke of being a president for all Americans, of healing divisions, of unleashing potential. He avoided specifics of any kind beyond a few key areas, including infrastructure.
“We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals,” Trump said. “We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it.”
If any issue could build a bridge between Trump, his supporters, and everyone else, this could be it. The nation’s infrastructure is crumbling—literally, in some cases. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives US infrastructure a D+, and estimates the country would have to invest $3.6 trillion to patch it all by 2020.
