David Drucker of the Washington Examiner highlights the latest items on the top of President Trump’s priority list.
President Trump is leaning on infrastructure and jobs to lift his political fortunes, with support for other initiatives slipping amid questions about his involvement in a federal investigation into Russian meddling in 2016.
A blueprint to modernize the nation’s infrastructure, which Trump is unveiling to compete with the highly anticipated Senate testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey, is among the few arrows the president has left in his quiver.
“The American people elected a builder to be the 45th president of the United States,” White House deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders said, as she announced Trump’s trip to Ohio on Wednesday to discuss his plans to revamp inland waterways.
Trump, a career real estate developer, campaigned on rebuilding crumbling U.S. infrastructure, a goal of President Obama’s thwarted by Republicans in Congress leery of spending taxpayer dollars.
Trump, who has moved up the planned unveiling of his infrastructure overhaul from early next year to this week, would get around that by relying on private investment and privatization.
