A political stalemate with Congress shows few signs of clearing up soon.
By Toluse Olorunnipa and Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email Bio Follow Mike DeBonis Mike DeBonis Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives Email Bio Follow May 26 at 7:46 PM Business leaders and communities around the country are expressing alarm that the bitter partisan impasse in Washington is paralyzing efforts to revamp the nation’s deteriorating and outdated infrastructure.
The partisan stalemate — now immortalized as a running joke about the White House’s never-ending “Infrastructure Week” — belies the growing and costly problem. The American Society of Civil Engineers, in its 2017 report, estimated that funding would need to be increased by $2 trillion over 10 years to make up the infrastructure gap.
Trump appeared to echo those views in an interview with Fox News host Steve Hilton, when he accused the Democrats of turning the infrastructure negotiations into “a little bit of a game.” “You can go down the investigation track, and you can go down the investment track or the track of ‘Let’s get things done for the American people,’ ” he said during a hastily scheduled news conference in the Rose Garden.For now, Democrats are pushing ahead with their oversight efforts, and prospects for an infrastructure deal seem all but dead this year. Pelosi accused Trump of a “temper tantrum” and publicly questioned his ability to “match the greatness of the challenge” before him.
“We’re two-and-a-half years into this with no real movement on infrastructure, no real new dollars being brought to bear,” said Austin Mayor Steve Adler . “I don’t know if it was just something that the president was saying in order to get elected, but there’s never been an indication that there was something there there.”
“We have to talk about real revenues, which means some form of taxation in some way,” he added. “You can’t do it with fairy dust.”
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