With a $1 trillion infrastructure plan unveiled Tuesday, Senate Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are offering President Donald Trump an opportunity to make good on a major campaign promise—without giving away billions to private corporations in the process.
The sweeping proposal (pdf), which proponents claim would create 15 million jobs, focuses on repairing the nation’s “crumbling roads and bridges,” upgrading local water and sewer systems, replacing and expanding existing rail and bus systems, rebuilding schools, and expanding high-speed broadband in unserved and underserved areas, among other priorities. The plan would reportedly “rely on direct federal spending,” as the Washington Post reports, and be paid for by closing unspecified tax loopholes.
The blueprint lays down the gauntlet to both Trump—who campaigned on a promise to implement such an infrastructure program, but whose plan for doing so amounts to what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “a giant public subsidy to developers and investors”—and congressional Republicans, who have resisted attempts to allocate federal dollars to such national improvement projects.
The Post reports:
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