Of setting priorities. Making sure we are not going into fullblown crisis mode, spending money on whatever comes along. Instead, Getting Congress and the administration to focus on what is needed most. Host how does the government approach typical Infrastructure Spending . Guest it happens in different ways. One of the important elements of any debate that will emerge over the next several months is getting into the particulars of how the government functions in different areas of infrastructure. Has the primary responsibility for the transportation program. The money comes from, substantial sums of money, come from the government. On Water Utility state and local governments are making the primary decisions. The federal government does make some choices about dividing tax municipal bonds. It provides lowinterest loans for state and local governments to do various projects, and funds agencies such as the u. S. Army corps of engineers, the bureau of reclamation, and the department of tr
House sparked a war of words spnspn with steve bannon. His forthcoming book went after members of the president s family and he fired back in a statement saying mr. Bannon not only lost his job he lost his mind, close quote. Theres more to this story playing out in the newspapers this morning. But we want you to comment to us about this latest spat between President Trump and steve bannon. The white house and steve bannon as well, 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002 on twitter, you can tweet us cspanwj and not only post there but see statements made bizarrea sanders at the White House Press briefing, that as facebook. Com cspan. The book is called fire and fury, inside the Trump White House and excerpts of it appeared on the website for new York Magazine. Part of those excerpts commenting and quoting steve bannon, particularly on several members of the trump family, including donald trump jr. Here is one of the quotes. The three senior guys on the campaign thought it
Website for our guest association. Washington journal continues. Host our guest is Debra Knopman , a principal researcher for the rand corporation. Not everything is broken, the future of u. S. Transportation. Good morning. What are you suggesting when you say not everything is broken and Infrastructure Spending . Guest we are not suggesting there are not problems. There are large problems with our infrastructure. By saying not everything is broken we are making the point of setting priorities. Making sure we are not going into fullblown crisis mode, spending money on whatever comes along. Instead, Getting Congress and the administration to focus on what is needed most. Host how does the government approach typical Infrastructure Spending . Guest it happens in different ways. One of the important elements of any debate that will emerge over the next several months is getting into the particulars of how the government functions in different areas of infrastructure. Has the primary respo
We did not embarq on a truckonly Highway Program. Guest it is darn expensive to do that. Not that there have not been proposals for that kind of approach. You find truckonly lanes in various places around the country. We know that Freight Networks are a huge concern. They are leading commerce. It is one thing we think this administration will care about. Anyding additional lanes in road, especially in an urbanized area, is a difficult and expensive proposition. There are elements we would agree with. I dont think we will see a wholesale truckexclusive interstate any time the near future. Host transportation. Org is the website for our guest association. Washington journal continues. Host our guest is Debra Knopman , a principal researcher for the rand corporation. Not everything is broken, the future of u. S. Transportation. Good morning. What are you suggesting when you say not everything is broken and Infrastructure Spending . Guest we are not suggesting there are not problems. There
Democrat has supported. This has affected more than 4 million american workers. The president is working to build an america that works for all americans. The tax cut is a big part of that, as is infrastructure. Yesterday the president in unveiled the new economic outline. We are committed to quickly building a safe, reliable and modern infrastructure to meet the needs of the American People and to fuel economic growth. And to help make this possible we have a very special announcement today. In keeping with his campaign pledge, the president donates his salary on a quarterly basis to further work being done on important projects. Most recently the president donated his thirdquarter salary to help the department of health and Human Services combat the opioid epidemic. Prior to that he donated to the department of education and the National Park service. Today the president will donate his fourthquarter salary to the department of transportation to support their programs to rebuild and