Pelosi says she will talk infrastructure with Trump next week

[mystery-ak]

Pelosi says she will talk infrastructure with Trump next week
By Cristina Marcos - 04/23/19 05:11 PM EDT

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she plans to meet with President Trump next week to discuss infrastructure legislation, seen as one of the few areas of potential bipartisan compromise.

"We'll be meeting with the president next week when we come back to talk about what the prospect is for the size in terms of resources and scope of what that might be," Pelosi said at the Time 100 summit.

Pelosi said that infrastructure and reducing the cost of prescription drugs are two places where she sees hope for agreement with the White House.

"In our conversations at the staff level and my conversations with him, I think we can find a path to do that," Pelosi said of talks on reducing prescription drug prices. "So there are two that I'm very about optimistic we could accomplish."

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[libertybele]

BKMK

[kevindavis007]

Oh boy.. I hope to god there is no tax increases.

[Night Hides Not]

Oh boy.. I hope to god there is no tax increases.

Why should there be any tax increases? Just add it to the deficit, that's what they've been doing for years.

[skeeter]

Leave your suggestions in the box by the door, Madame Weirdo.

[edpc]

Why should there be any tax increases? Just add it to the deficit, that's what they've been doing for years.

That’s probably what they would do, but Trump has previously proposed a 25-50 cent gas tax to fund the plan.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

[Jazzhead]

Oh boy.. I hope to god there is no tax increases.

Count on it.   An increase in the gas tax for infrastructure.   The most I can hope for is that my increased taxes actually go for roads 'n bridges.   

[Night Hides Not]

Count on it.   An increase in the gas tax for infrastructure.   The most I can hope for is that my increased taxes actually go for roads 'n bridges.

Jazz, you know better than that.

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”  Oscar Wilde

By my guesstimate, less than half of those new taxes will go to actual construction. The bureaucracy will take most of it.

[thackney]

Jazz, you know better than that.


By my guesstimate, less than half of those new taxes will go to actual construction. The bureaucracy will take most of it.

Bike Trails and Pedestrian Bridges usually get a good sized piece of the action.

[Jazzhead]

Jazz, you know better than that.

Unfortunately, I do.  And that portion of new taxes that actually goes to roads will be shot through with "worker protections" aimed to benefit the Dems' union cronies.   

[rustynail]

About what is holding her upright?

[Chosen Daughter]

Need to have jobs for all the illegals that have come in recent months.

[corbe]

   Does anyone think that this time will be different than obummer dumping $800B in 2009 on infrastructure?



   Eisenhower got the interstates built for @ $27B in the 50/60's if I'm not mistaken.

[Jazzhead]

   Does anyone think that this time will be different than obummer dumping $800B in 2009 on infrastructure?

Obama's $800B was mostly to prop up state and local governments, and their teat-feeding unions.    There's a right way and a wrong way to do infrastructure. 

[Axeslinger]

Pelosi says she will talk infrastructure ways to funnel taxpayer money to shore up the support of her union cronies with Trump next week

FIXED IT!

[Cyber Liberty]

Obama's $800B was mostly to prop up state and local governments, and their teat-feeding unions.    There's a right way and a wrong way to do infrastructure.

True.  Very little, if any of that $800B went to building stuff.  It went to the government Unions pensions.

[XenaLee]

True.  Very little, if any of that $800B went to building stuff.  It went to the government Unions pensions.

It was also used by the rats as their slush fund (like for bribes to enemy nations) to further undermine America as founded, and to buy more rat votes.  If they really cared about infrastructure, they would have done something during those eight years.  It's just another leftist lie they resurrect every time a Republican gets in the WH.  The only ones buying into it are the stuckonstupid uninformed and ignorant Democrat constituents.

[kevindavis007]

Bike Trails and Pedestrian Bridges usually get a good sized piece of the action.

Also, high-speed choo choo and airports that no one uses.

[kevindavis007]

It was also used by the rats as their slush fund (like for bribes to enemy nations) to further undermine America as founded, and to buy more rat votes.  If they really cared about infrastructure, they would have done something during those eight years.  It's just another leftist lie they resurrect every time a Republican gets in the WH.  The only ones buying into it are the stuckonstupid uninformed and ignorant Democrat constituents.

To them if we aren't spending money on trains then no money is being spent on infrastructure.

[EdJames]

It was also used by the rats as their slush fund (like for bribes to enemy nations) to further undermine America as founded, and to buy more rat votes.  If they really cared about infrastructure, they would have done something during those eight years.  It's just another leftist lie they resurrect every time a Republican gets in the WH.  The only ones buying into it are the stuckonstupid uninformed and ignorant Democrat constituents.

If I am not mistaken, that $800B has been permanently in their fake "non Budget" spending bills ever since.

I heard that Pelosi was thinking about a $2 Trillion dollar plan as an opener.

[libertybele]

Also, high-speed choo choo and airports that no one uses.

The last time Trump talked to Pelosi things worked out so well.  They could write a book together; "How to Screw the American People and Destroy the Country".

[libertybele]

To them if we aren't spending money on trains then no money is being spent on infrastructure.

Silly you...that's why AOC's Green Deal is so perfect.  No trains!  No worries.

[Jazzhead]

To them if we aren't spending money on trains then no money is being spent on infrastructure.

Every person (like me) who takes the train to work means one less car on the road.    Less wear and tear on roads,  less aggravation for motorists stuck in jams.   

[Cyber Liberty]

Every person (like me) who takes the train to work means one less car on the road.    Less wear and tear on roads,  less aggravation for motorists stuck in jams.

It's good for urban areas, not so much in the fly-over country.