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Related: About this forumTrump plans week-long focus on infrastructure, starting with privatizing air traffic control
Source: Washington Post
Trump plans week-long focus on infrastructure, starting with privatizing air traffic control
By John Wagner June 3 at 2:15 PM
President Trump will seek to put a spotlight on his vows to privatize the nations air traffic control system and spur $1 trillion in new investment in roads, waterways and other infrastructure with a week-long series of events starting Monday in the Rose Garden.
The events billed as infrastructure week are part of a stepped-up effort since the presidents return a week ago from his first foreign trip to show that the White House remains focused on its agenda, despite cascading headlines about his administrations ties to Russia.
Trumps plans next week also include a trip to the Ohio River, where it separates Ohio and Kentucky, to talk about the importance of waterways and to lay out his vision of infrastructure investments more broadly, aides say. And before the weekend, he will also welcome a bipartisan group of mayors and governors to Washington to discuss the topic and venture to the Transportation Department to talk about roads and railways.
In many of these areas, were falling behind, and the falling behind is affecting economic growth in the United States, said Gary Cohn, Trumps chief economic adviser, who is helping lead a task force developing Trumps infrastructure plan. The president wants to fix the problem.
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By John Wagner June 3 at 2:15 PM
President Trump will seek to put a spotlight on his vows to privatize the nations air traffic control system and spur $1 trillion in new investment in roads, waterways and other infrastructure with a week-long series of events starting Monday in the Rose Garden.
The events billed as infrastructure week are part of a stepped-up effort since the presidents return a week ago from his first foreign trip to show that the White House remains focused on its agenda, despite cascading headlines about his administrations ties to Russia.
Trumps plans next week also include a trip to the Ohio River, where it separates Ohio and Kentucky, to talk about the importance of waterways and to lay out his vision of infrastructure investments more broadly, aides say. And before the weekend, he will also welcome a bipartisan group of mayors and governors to Washington to discuss the topic and venture to the Transportation Department to talk about roads and railways.
In many of these areas, were falling behind, and the falling behind is affecting economic growth in the United States, said Gary Cohn, Trumps chief economic adviser, who is helping lead a task force developing Trumps infrastructure plan. The president wants to fix the problem.
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Trump plans week-long focus on infrastructure, starting with privatizing air traffic control (Original Post)
Eugene
Jun 2017
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Warpy
(111,338 posts)1. Oh, yeah, sucking profit out of the system
What could possibly go wrong?
Fucking moron.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)2. Does he have the right to sell this off? Sounds like another
fucking nightmare
Warpy
(111,338 posts)3. No, he needs Congress. They fly a lot, so I tend to think he's SOL on this
Plus, the FAA is going to fight him tooth and nail, as will the Air Force because they share bases with civilian aircraft in a lot of areas, my own included.
You suck profit out of any system, service degrades. That's inconvenient in Wal Mart. It has been fatal in health care and will be fatal if they do it to air controllers.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)6. Exactly. k&r, nt.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)4. worse than reagan. full destruction. oh hell yes he is gonna go after SS.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)5. The republicans have wanted to do this forever
And don't think the Republican house and senate will object. Hold on to your wallets.