Chuck Schumer predicts nationwide tolls under Trump’s infrastructure plan

Published June 5, 2017 3:16pm ET



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer signaled he won’t support President Trump’s plan to use private funding to fulfill much of his massive infrastructure plan, and predicted Trump’s idea would create toll roads all around the country.

“It means Trump tolls from one end of America to the other, and huge profits for financiers who, when they put up the money, want to be repaid by the average driver, worker and citizen,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday.

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