Pence tells U.S. mayors to expect an infrastructure spending boost

Published January 17, 2017 8:49pm ET



Vice President-elect Mike Pence promised hundreds of U.S. mayors on Tuesday that the incoming administration will soon put forward an infrastructure package that ensures cities across America have enough funding to meet their needs, despite mounting concerns of a coming battle over such legislation.

“I called [President-elect Trump] this afternoon to tell him I was coming by and in addition to urging me to send along greetings, he said ‘tell them we’re going to do an infrastructure bill and it’s going to be big,'” Pence said in remarks at the 85th Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

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