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Trump, Democrats set $2T infrastructure goal

May 1, 2019

Via: Politico

CUTTING THROUGH THE HYPE: The big infrastructure meeting at the White House Tuesday made a lot of news, so let’s break it down.

The top takeaway is that Trump and the congressional Democrats he met with agreed to a top-line dollar figure for an infrastructure bill. There’s no plan, and no way to pay for it yet, but there is a $2 trillion target. Among the many tidbits that leaked out from the closed-door meeting is that Trump reportedly said $2 trillion “sounds better” than $1.9 trillion, but he also wasn’t having it when top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer suggested upping the ante to $2.2 trillion.

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