Opinion: Democrats offer Trump an infrastructure deal that isn’t going to happen
A worker labors on the beam of the Route 495 viaduct during a project to remodel the bridge which feeds into the Lincoln Tunnel in North Bergen, N.J.
After all, Trump is choking off all oversight and otherwise treating the House as fundamentally illegitimate, even as he is blasting Democrats for “TREASON” — while urging his own border officials to break the law by barring asylum-seeking and issuing unhinged threats about closing the border entirely.First there’s the matter raised by Schumer, who asked for Trump’s “ideas on funding.”
What it comes down to is that Democrats want to build infrastructure by building infrastructure. By contrast, Republicans would prefer to focus on giving tax incentives to private corporations, which would build the infrastructure and then control it, charging fees and tolls to continue to profit on it in perpetuity.
Just think about previous times Trump has strayed from what conservatives wanted. When there has been the slightest hint that Trump might accept a deal they hate, right-wing media wheeled into action to paint him as a weakling who was selling out his all-important base, and given his sensitivity to that frightful charge, he has backed down.
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