Trump administration set to unveil $1 trillion infrastructure proposal in 2018

[Cripplecreek]

The Trump administration is expected to unveil an infrastructure package in the new year, after putting the issue on the sidelines amid other GOP priorities in 2017.

The White House is working to release a roughly 70-page infrastructure proposal sometime in January for members of Congress to use as a cornerstone for drafting the legislation in 2018.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/26/trump-administration-set-to-unveil-1-trillion-infrastructure-proposal-in-2018.html

[Oceander]

So where is all this money going to come from?

[Cripplecreek]

They should be concentrating on finding where the last trillion went with nothing to show for it.

[endicom]

Federal monies of 200 billion over ten years. The rest to be state, municipal and private monies.

It's been my contention that these monies would be spent in any case. My further contention has been that there is a better chance of the monies being well spent under Trump than under anyone else I can think of.

[Oceander]

Federal monies of 200 billion over ten years. The rest to be state, municipal and private monies.

It's been my contention that these monies would be spent in any case. My further contention has been that there is a better chance of the monies being well spent under Trump than under anyone else I can think of.

[Oceander]

So, Trump is bidding to add more than $2 trillion to the national debt, and that’s just in his first year or so. 

And here I thought it was only the democrats who were so cavalier with taxpayers’ money.

[txradioguy]

They should be concentrating on finding where the last trillion went with nothing to show for it.

That's now a permanent part of the of the budget to be used for anything but infrastructure.

[Concerned]

It’ll be interesting to me to see the Federal legislative that will “spur” $800M in state, municipal, and private funding in infrastructure. Hopefully this state and local funding was previously planned and included in prior budgets and will not cause additional tax increases locally.

[Cripplecreek]

Put your faith in Trump, brother. 

I just watched a crew spend from May to about last week repaving a 5 mile stretch of road that didn't need to be repaved at 3 days per week while far worse connecting roads were ignored.

No doubt the money will be spent alright but it won't be spent wisely.

[driftdiver]

So, Trump is bidding to add more than $2 trillion to the national debt, and that’s just in his first year or so. 

And here I thought it was only the democrats who were so cavalier with taxpayers’ money.

@Oceander
well you already read that its over 10 years so either this is an intentional misdirection or as a lawyer you have a severe reading comprehension problem.

Its also yet another example that you will fight against anything he does, regardless of what it is.

[driftdiver]

Put your faith in Trump, brother. 

I just watched a crew spend from May to about last week repaving a 5 mile stretch of road that didn't need to be repaved at 3 days per week while far worse connecting roads were ignored.

No doubt the money will be spent alright but it won't be spent wisely.

@Cripplecreek
Was trump out ther managing them?   Did he set the rules on which roads got repaved?

Or did your local politicans and unelected office holders do that?    Man the hate is just eating you up.

[cato potatoe]

Now we will be propagandized by a slew of Joe Isuzus, assuring us this will magically pay for itself ... just like the beautiful tax cuts.  The modern "conservative" movement is just a pile of hocus pocus.

[Cripplecreek]

Now we will be propagandized by a slew of Joe Isuzus, assuring us this will magically pay for itself ... just like the beautiful tax cuts.  The modern "conservative" movement is just a pile of hocus pocus.

That's why I have abandoned those principle free clowns and have adopted the label of Federalist.

[aligncare]

Federal monies of 200 billion over ten years. The rest to be state, municipal and private monies.

It's been my contention that these monies would be spent in any case. My further contention has been that there is a better chance of the monies being well spent under Trump than under anyone else I can think of.

Federal infrastructure projects typically cost taxpayers 3-4 times what private businesses pay to build.

One of Donald Trump’s signature issues during the campaign was getting pork and Union patronage out of federal infrastructure projects and bringing in construction projects on time and under budget. Trump knows the real costs of building compared to what inflated government contracts pay out in waste, fraud and abuse. I think he’ll work on getting more bang for the taxpayer buck.

[Oceander]

@Oceander
well you already read that its over 10 years so either this is an intentional misdirection or as a lawyer you have a severe reading comprehension problem.

Its also yet another example that you will fight against anything he does, regardless of what it is.

[Night Hides Not]

Just when I see good things like our UN budget being cut and EPA employees retiring in droves, I see more pork adding to the deficit.

Trump's talk about reducing the deficit is puffery at it's best.

[Night Hides Not]

Federal infrastructure projects typically cost taxpayers 3-4 times what private businesses pay to build.

One of Donald Trump’s signature issues during the campaign was getting pork and Union patronage out of federal infrastructure projects and bringing in construction projects on time and under budget. Trump knows the real costs of building compared to what inflated government contracts pay out in waste, fraud and abuse. I think he’ll work on getting more bang for the taxpayer buck.

Brings to mind a nearly 20 YO quote from Trump:

[Oceander]

Brings to mind a nearly 20 YO quote from Trump:

Ain’t that the truth.

[Applewood]

Sorry, guys.  I know Trump's fans believe that he can manage an expenditure like this better than Obama and others have done in the past, but I don't have that confidence.  Corruption, waste and mismanagement is an integral part of how government works in DC and everywhere else. If he's going to do this right, he will have to change the culture and replace the bureaucrats who normally manage these things.  While he might bring in people he trusts, I don't believe they will be any better than the bureaucrats we have now.  Too much money and too much incentive to temptation resources or use them to pay off unions and special interests. 

[Cyber Liberty]

They should be concentrating on finding where the last trillion went with nothing to show for it.

We already know.  Most of the money was block granted to States, who then used it to bail out their State worker pension funds.

The infrastructure still needs work, but I don't think it's going to be doled out the same way it was under Obastard.  Let's see how it's proposed before we automatically trash it because Trump supports it.  That's getting old.

[driftdiver]

Sorry, guys.  I know Trump's fans believe that he can manage an expenditure like this better than Obama and others have done in the past, but I don't have that confidence.  Corruption, waste and mismanagement is an integral part of how government works in DC and everywhere else. If he's going to do this right, he will have to change the culture and replace the bureaucrats who normally manage these things.  While he might bring in people he trusts, I don't believe they will be any better than the bureaucrats we have now.  Too much money and too much incentive to temptation resources or use them to pay off unions and special interests.

@Applewood
So lets just stop all spending under trump.  That way nothing is wasted.  /s

so predictable

[aligncare]

If people want to comfort themselves and think of Trump as an evil, incompetent billionaire, genius, that’s fine — though I’m not sure how that squares with the facts.

But, if there’s one thing Donald Trump knows better than anything else, it’s construction.

[kidd]

No doubt the money will be spent alright but it won't be spent wisely.

My brother in law is a road construction engineer.

He tells me that under the Obama administration infrastructure program, cities, counties and states took the Federal money to pay for projects that were already planned and financed by local funding. The local funding that was earmarked for infrastructure was then spent on teacher's pensions, which are in deep trouble.

IOW, the Obama infrastructure program paid for underfunded government pensions.

I sincerely hope that the Trump program will have far greater oversight.

[RoosGirl]

@Applewood
So lets just stop all spending under trump.  That way nothing is wasted.  /s

so predictable

So let's increase spending under Trump because he knows how to spend it better than anybody else.  /s

equally predictable

[Night Hides Not]

If people want to comfort themselves and think of Trump as an evil, incompetent billionaire, genius, that’s fine — though I’m not sure how that squares with the facts.

But, if there’s one thing Donald Trump knows better than anything else, it’s construction.

What he knows better than anyone is how to screw contractors out of the money he owes them. And now he has the entire Department of Justice to do it.