How a robust infrastructure plan can reboot the Trump agenda

By Robert Wasinger

Published June 8, 2017 4:01am ET

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How a robust infrastructure plan can reboot the Trump agenda — If the president wants to revivify his agenda for American renewal, he must oust congressional GOP budget hawks and Democratic naysayers from the driver's seat and retake the political initiative. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

The cliché about presidential budgets sent to Congress is that they are “dead on arrival.” In the case of the budget crafted by Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), one might say that it was dead even before it was written, and it was none other than candidate Donald Trump who killed it.

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