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Schumer to Trump: Give Us Green Infrastructure, or We’ll Give You None
Dec 13, 2018
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/schumer-no-infrastructure-deal-without-climate-action.html
A thousand infrastructure weeks have come and gone, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan for rebuilding America’s “crumbling roads and bridges.” Over his first two years in office, the president has unveiled several proposals that were branded as such. But these were all, in fact, schemes for delivering tax breaks to wealthy developers, loosening environmental regulations, and transferring resources from urban areas to rural ones — all without increasing infrastructure spending enough to offset the cuts proposed in the White House’s budget.
A thousand infrastructure weeks have come and gone, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan for rebuilding America’s “crumbling roads and bridges.” Over his first two years in office, the president has unveiled several proposals that were branded as such. But these were all, in fact, schemes for delivering tax breaks to wealthy developers, loosening environmental regulations, and transferring resources from urban areas to rural ones — all without increasing infrastructure spending enough to offset the cuts proposed in the White House’s budget.