Trump's Change of Heart Puts $1 Trillion Building Plan in Limbo
- Administration had been touting effort to tap private capital
- Senate committee working on its own infrastructure bill
Trump Changes Tune on Public-Private Partnerships
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Donald Trump’s infrastructure guru spent part of Sept. 26 at a conference in Washington promoting the president’s $1 trillion plan to rebuild the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges and airports relying in part on public-private partnerships. The same day, across town, Trump was telling lawmakers that those kinds of deals don’t work.
The president’s apparent change of heart on what’s been an important pillar of his economic plan left key constituents of the infrastructure initiative reeling.