Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

How Trump Doomed His Own Infrastructure Plan

His trillion dollar dream lacked support within the White House and among Republicans.

February 22, 2018 at 12:00 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Remember the Trump infrastructure plan? It was rolled out, after many delays, only last Monday. But it appears so far to have few champions on Capitol Hill, and may well be dead already; the president himself spent the last few days tweeting up a storm but hasn't mentioned infrastructure in his feed since last Tuesday. Ezra Klein asks the question:

I think we can point to several reasons.