Democrats Sour on Infrastructure Proposals

by LEIGH ANN CALDWELL

... On Monday, Trump announced a plan to privatize the Federal Aviation Air Traffic Control system, which is the first part of a week-long roll out of his infrastructure ideas, an issue he campaigned on since his first days as a candidate when he called the country’s airports comparable to those in the “third world.”

But Democrats, who agree with him on broad principle, immediately slammed Trump’s plan, saying that his ideas will go nowhere in Congress.

“Trump's ideas for privatizing Air Traffic Control — which recycle a tired Republican plan that both sides of the aisle have rejected — would hand control of one of our nation’s most important public assets to special interests and the big airlines,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement ...

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-sour-trump-infrastructure-proposals-n768446