It looks like the Trump administration is throwing in the shovel on its infrastructure plans this year.
White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short told reporters Friday that the White House’s agenda for the rest of 2018 is focused on more tax cuts, more judicial appointments, the farm bill and maybe an immigration deal.
The $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan Trump offered in February – which called for $200 billion in federal funding, to be amplified, somehow, by $1.3 trillion from state, local and private sources – will have to wait until 2019, Short said, blaming election-year politics and Democrats’ unwillingness to hand Trump a legislative win ahead of the November elections.
