Watch: Trump dumps environmental permits to highlight excessive permitting rules

President Trump held up several massive binders and dropped them to the floor in a Friday speech to demonstrate the “slow, costly and time-consuming” permitting rules that have prevented the U.S. from moving more quickly to build infrastructure projects around the country.

Speaking at the Department of Transportation on Friday, Trump said he had just met with people responsible for their states’ economic development and roadways, including a man who showed the president a massive binder containing a costly environmental report that held up road construction.