The president wants $1.5 trillion in new spending on infrastructure, but Congress so far has allocated $21 billion — slightly more than 1 percent of the president's goal. Among the president's top economic plans for America — tax cuts, deregulation, infrastructure and renegotiated trade deals — infrastructure is the area where Trump has accomplished the least. While Trump has vowed “the biggest and boldest infrastructure investment in American history,” congressional leaders have more modest aims. And we need to find some way to pay for it,” said Marcia Hale, president of Building America's Future, a bipartisan coalition pushing for infrastructure funding. But Kudlow told a conservative radio station in February that he “really liked” Trump's infrastructure plan, especially relying a lot on private funding instead of government dollars.

Source: Washington Post March 29, 2018 15:54 UTC