The leaders of Building America’s Future sent a letter to the bipartisan Congressional Leadership urging the creation of a federal capital budget to fund infrastructure investment in the next COVID-19 response package.
Congress and the Trump Administration are considering a fifth COVID-19 response package to address the health, financial, and economic wreckage caused by the pandemic. Critical to jump-starting the economy is infrastructure investment which will create thousands of much-needed jobs across the country. As concerns are being raised that the trillions of dollars currently being spent related to the crisis are adding to the national debt, the creation of a federal capital budget would help to minimize additional impact.
