We Remember Infrastructure Week
Even if former FBI director James Comey hadn’t been scheduled to deliver an explosive testimony to Congress, in which he described apparently deliberate attempts by the American president to halt the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference with the 2016 election, it’s safe to say Infrastructure Week would have fallen somewhat flat.
That’s because President Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure “plan” remains untethered to anything resembling legislation. The most we know is that the White House hopes to “leverage” $200 billion in federal funds to attract another $800 billion in private investment. Nobody who knows anything about infrastructure believes this will work. That didn’t stop the president from five days of speech-ifying and document-signing in the name of “addressing America's crumbling infrastructure,” though.