President Obama tried to get Congress to invest more in infrastructure during his eight years in office. While he and his allies were able to push many infrastructure measures through, the Congress never fully funded all the infrastructure advances, upgrades, and maintenance projects the country needed. President Trump has finally unveiled his infrastructure plans with a price tag of 1.5 trillion dollars. According to the U.S. News and World Report Link below, that is 2.5 trillion dollars short of what it would take to fully modernize our infrastructure. Democrats are annoyed because the federal portion of this plan is 200 billion dollars and relies too much on private investment and sticking the costs to the states and local municipalities. Republicans, of course, have the exact opposite sentiment. One would think that a gathering of both parties with representatives from the local, state, and federal level, as well as the relevant industries, would be able to find the right balance and devise an infrastructure plan that would set our nation on the right course. Nations like China and Germany are able to implement prudent infrastructure policies. This is the United States, the nation that put people on the Moon on time and under budget. If our parents and grandparents could accomplish that, we should be able to rise to the occasion here.
https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2018-02-16/planes-trains-and-roads-to-nowhere?src=usn_fb
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/subjects/infrastructure/
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