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Infrastructure week appears to be dead. Good

By Tom Rogan
Published May 22, 2019 6:15pm ET
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Infrastructure week appears to be dead. Good
Construction crews with CEMEX Company work Friday on First Avenue between 16th Street and 13th Street. First Avenue is closed in all directions between 13th Street and 16th Street as part of the first phase of improvements to First Avenue between 16th Street and Orange Avenue, according to the city's road report. The project will include improvements to underground water and sewer infrastructure, upgrading sidewalks and some adjacent driveways, and improving surface pavement. Improvements at the intersection with 16th Street will include lane restrictions on 16th Street between May and September. The overall project time is expected to take eight months to complete. | (Randy Hoeft/Yuma Sun via AP)

I have little interest in posturing Democratic investigations into the Trump administration, or in President Trump’s often intemperate reaction to them. But I am very glad that the infrastructure bill appears, at least temporarily, to have been killed off by today’s acrimony.

I’m glad, because that infrastructure bill was going to play to the worst impulses of both Trump and the Democrats while providing grossly inadequate return on investment for taxpayers.

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