THE BUILD UP: Infrastructure advocates have been hyping up today’s meeting between Trump and a dozen Democratic congressional leaders. Neil Bradley, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce executive, said it could be “historic” and drew comparisons to President Ronald Reagan and a Democratic Congress breaking an infrastructure funding impasse in 1982.
The let down? But Schumer may have already dashed any chance of finding agreement. On Monday, a source close to him told reporters that the top Senate Democrat won’t even consider a proposal to raise the gas tax unless Trump considers rolling back parts of his signature legislative achievement: the 2017 tax cuts.
