Congress and White House Agree on Infrastructure, But Need a Way to Pay for It
Virtually everyone on Capitol Hill and in the White House seems to agree that the nation’s infrastructure needs immediate federal investment, and on Wednesday the call in the House and Senate was renewed: Figure out how to pay for it....
The Highway Trust Fund is “facing an urgent and dire funding cliff that needs immediate attention,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
“After all the studies outlining this crisis, no meaningful action has been taken to correct decades of chronic underinvestment,” he said.