President Trump is so focused on winning a bipartisan deal to rebuild America’s transportation infrastructure that it dominates discussions with Democratic leaders, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Eighty percent of the time that I’ve spoken to the president by phone or in person since his election, he’s talked about infrastructure,” Pelosi said in a breakfast meeting with reporters Wednesday.
She said that only a “few times” has the president not raised the topic in their meetings and calls.
“So I think he would really like to do that,” she added.
And, she said, the reason she believes the president is so focused on infrastructure is because the White House is searching for wins to show off in the 2020 election.
“They have no accomplishments,” she said.
The hangup remains paying for the multi-trillion dollar plan, and Pelosi said that Trump has not offered a concrete plan to fund the fixes while not adding to the national debt. Raising the gas tax is one alternative proponents have advocated.
What’s more, Pelosi said that Democrats are willing to work on the issue with the White House even if impeachment hearings begin.
“I don’t think we have to wait,” she said at the roundtable sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
