Trump was the one who said he wants to spend a trillion on infrastructure. Maybe your question should be directed to him?
“Trump was the one who said he wants to spend a trillion on infrastructure. Maybe your question should be directed to him?”
There needs to be a plan that closes financially on any nationwide infrastructure program. Brownback is just doing what the states have always done, nosing up to the Federal tit ahead of any planned Federal expenditures.
Just as I suspected, he’s pi$$ed away the money elsewhere! Someone should tell the good people of Kansas just where this money went.
“Bob Totten, executive vice president of the Kansas Contractors Association, says while he welcomes any effort to bring additional federal construction dollars to the state, what Brownback is requesting wouldn’t make up for “all the money he’s taken from the highway program over the last six years.”
Brownback and lawmakers, Totten says, have swept $2.7 billion from KDOT, crippling the agency’s ability to complete T-Works, a 10-year, $8 billion transportation program approved in 2010.
Brownback is proposing to take another $600 million from the agency over the next two budget years to help cover a projected shortfall of nearly $1 billion.”