Trump budget/infrastructure: so little, so late, and so phony

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, reacted to the release of President Trump's budget and infrastructure plan. Rep. Doggett said:

"The self-described ‘King of Debt' is avoiding even the pretext of containing the national debt in his new budget. And for his millionaire loyalists to the crown, already rewarded with an unjust tax giveaway, he offers an infrastructure plan that enables their control of most any public asset on which they can earn a profit.

"Once again rejecting any true bipartisan approach, his version of improving infrastructure is to shift more burden to states and localities with the federal match flipping from 80 percent to a mere 20 percent, together with selling off our roads and bridges to wealthy investors. It would take more than Rumpelstiltskin to spin the gold to convert $15 billion at most annually for all urban areas for all types of infrastructure into the promised $1.5 trillion. Don't expect any meaningful help from Trump to unclog I-35 or anything else.

"After more than a year of Trump inaction and chaos, this proposal is so little, so late, and so phony."

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