Sen. Markey: Trump infrastructure plan a “monetary mirage”

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Monday, 12 February 2018 ()
BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is blasting President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion plan for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, calling it a “monetary mirage.” The Massachusetts Democrat said the bill would commit just $200 billion of direct federal investment while cutting other core transportation and infrastructure programs like Amtrak and federal transit grants. Markey […]
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 Donald Trump's infrastructure plan is already running headlong into issues facing the federal government and states. Steve Bell, a Republican and former longtime Senate Budget Committee director, says Washington is running its biggest peacetime deficit, and “states have no money either." According...