On the Infrastructure Plan (It’s Here, At Last!)

As I’ve noted previously, Trump had two options with infrastructure.  The first was a bipartisan plan with lots of new federal money that the CLs would hate; the second was a small CL-friendly plan focusing on privatization and state and local funds that the Democrats would hate.

The plan is Option B.  To sum it up from Trump’s perspective, you build a bridge, I provide a small sum of money for it, and you name it after me.

It’s hard to see why he would even bother to do this.  The plan isn’t going anywhere, the public isn’t impressed, and he’s not going to be able to run on it.