impact on tourism i guess but as you see there is already a lot of money pledged. rebuilds so i think france is gathering forces it s a moment of unity to bring back the church and it s interesting. we re supposed to speak. after the year of his movement yesterday nights and consulates it took the momentum to bring this moment of unity on each side tell us a little bit more about that effort to fund the rebuilding is i mean we ve seen quite a phenomenal actually emerge many high profile people making credible donations yet you have the largest of the richest families in france. doing a little competition was giving them the more money you know and other family you know went on over the one gave one hundred million the other or pledged two hundred million the city of paris is pledging fifty million the region around paris ten million nationals who scripts in will be launched and there s also private
laura: rents are going up in cities across the united states and yet the left, a lot of fair isle s activists, say that 10,000 units of public housing are lost to decay according to your own department and saying that you aren t doing a lot to fix this. there are a lot who believe throwing money at the problem is a solution. first of all, the budget proposed makes sure that we protect everybody in all the housing programs. nobody is going to be thrown out. but we are looking at things which comes and rebuilds and a lot of these dilapidated places and takes care of that deferred maintenance that s been put off for so long because the system that we have been using allowed it to continue to accumulate and people to get further behind. we are changing to a
in cities across the united states and yet the left a lot of fair housing activists say that 10,000 units of public housing are lost to decay according to your own department and saying that you aren t doing a lot to fix this. there are a lot who believe throwing money at the problem is a solution. we are looking at a lot of solutions. first of all, the budget proposed makes sure that we protect everybody in all the housing programs. m nobody is going to be thrown out. but we are looking at things which comes and rebuilds and a lot of these dilapidated places and takes care of that deferred maintenance that s been put off for so long because the system that we have been using allowed it to continue to accumulate and people to get further behind. we are changing to a public-private partnership system. laura: that s what they don t like. is that what s going on?
spending too much money and all of that. secretary, good to see you again. thank you for being with us. there is an understanding around the world that when you do major infrastructure builds or rebuilds that some of the money comes from a federal government and some of it comes from local authorities, some comes from bonds or public-private partnership. so with all of us saying it is a $1.5 trillion thing with only $200 billion to fund it, is it that bad? you know what, we have big, big infrastructure needs in america. 60,000 structure and transit systems that need new car and infrastructure. the national government needs to be the big partner if our infrastructure is going to be fixed up. states and local governments do not have the money and it is always been incumbent upon the federal government to put the lion s share of the money on the line to be matched with the
while he was in puerto rico last friday. take a listen. we are with you today, we will be with you tomorrow, we will be with you every day until puerto rico rebuilds and recovers bigger and better than ever before. now, that would appear to clash with what his boss said today about federal assistance in puerto rico. would it not? no, i disagree completely. what the vice president was saying is that the federal government is willing to be there with puerto rico and we re going to be there with puerto rico, but what you saw the president say today is that you re not necessarily going to have the u.s. military and the 17,000 federal workers there forever. that s not what the president said and you know that. you know that the president i think we have the tweets. this is from the president trump. puerto rico survived the hurricanes, now a financial crisis looms large live their