‘Transformative’ infrastructure projects would bilk taxpayers of billions

Published February 6, 2018 5:01am ET



In his State of the Union address last week, President Trump called for a “nation of builders” to repair the country’s crumbling infrastructure through $1.5 trillion in infrastructure “investments.”

This sort of rhetoric is hardly new, with calls to repair America’s roadways appearing in nearly every State of the Union going back decades. While President Trump’s quoted price tag didn’t come with many specifics, leaked administration plans offer a reasonable idea of what he has in mind.

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