But, if there’s one thing Donald Trump knows better than anything else, it’s construction.
Trump's construction experience is indeed significant, but it was related to real estate development.
I believe his experience will have some relevance to public works, once a specific set of dollars have been assigned to a specific project.
But unless Trump is going to micro-manage a trillion dollars worth of work, that experience will be largely irrelevant.
I'm a little concerned how many Federal dollars earmarked for infrastructure will actually be used for previously unfunded infrastructure projects.
My concern comes from how infrastructure funding was abused under the Obama administration, not from anything that Trump has done. Trump is more transparent than Obama, but there is nothing in Trump's experience that assures me that the same abuses will not occur this time. The swamp has NOT been drained and, for the most part, the same State and Federal agencies are in tact from the Obama administration.
Instead of block grants to the states, any infrastructure bill has to specify exactly what it will be spent for (for example, $100 million for I-95 bridge repairs, $20 million for Atlanta airport electricity distribution, etc). The problem with getting specific with projects will be with how the individual congressmen view what they think is a fair share of the pie for their state.