Tag: Davis-Bacon

Workers fix a sewer main below the sidewalk in Mid City New Orleans, on Jan. 31, 2018. The city of New Orleans is perhaps one of the best examples of what President Trump calls the countryâs âcrumbling infrastructure.â City officials say New Orleans needs more than $11 billion to update key parts of its infrastructure. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Biden’s Davis-Bacon bloat undermines taxpayer infrastructure investments

Ben Brubeck · September 6, 2022 2:55 pm

The Davis-Bacon Act may present challenges to Biden’s infrastructure plans

Jeremy Lott · January 8, 2021 4:00 am

Liberals should recognize that repealing prevailing wage laws, frees up millions for other projects like schools and parks. (AP File Photo)

Beltway Confidential

For better roads, repeal prevailing wage laws

Jason Russell · September 3, 2015 4:01 am

A presidential candidate should take a look at this year's Prime Cuts, a book of 601 budget recommendations produced by Citizens Against Government Waste. (AP Photo)Â

601 easy steps for GOP hopefuls to balance the budget

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2015 9:00 am

What Lamar Alexander’s primary win means for labor politics

Beltway Confidential

What Lamar Alexander’s primary win means for labor politics

Sean Higgins · August 10, 2014 10:00 am

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., called the Davis-Bacon Act wasteful and counterproductive, saying it hurt unskilled workers and cost taxpayers money. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Top Senate Republican calls for repealing union-backed wage law

Sean Higgins · July 30, 2014 3:42 pm