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Trump Kicks Off Potentially Messy Fight Over Biden's Infrastructure Money
One of Trump's executive orders could imperil billions in funding for projects that states have already begun working on, some experts said.
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C'mom "c-c-conservatives," show us how much you really believe in the constitution. Come out against this power grab that is clearly unconstitutional.
#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-22 04:29 PM | Reply
Trump tried to overthrow the Constitution and the rule of law already. What makes you think they care about this??
#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-22 04:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Gee who has been telling you this would happen for months/years?
Oh yeah, me.
Just a reminder that the richest man in the world and the largest government contractor has an office in the White House.
No, no corruption to see here.
#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-22 05:09 PM | Reply
"Potentially"????
LOL!
#4 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-01-23 07:44 AM | Reply
We are creating jobs and making our economy and infrastructure stronger by not spending this money. I will immediately send a bill to Congress to complete all these projects in record time, at only twice the cost. The bill will have my name on it, not Sleepy Joe's name... --King Dotard II
#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-01-23 09:26 AM | Reply
Cali's high speed rail, rural internet, EV charging stations etc., we're not getting value for the hundreds of billions being spent.
#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-23 12:11 PM | Reply
#6 | Posted by visitor_
Wait til you see the cost of climate change. Green power will seem like peanuts
#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 02:31 PM | Reply
#6 | POSTED BY VISITOR_
Doesn't justify this violation of separation of powers.
#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-23 02:41 PM | Reply
With nothing else, this seems like it's simply your partisan opinion.
#9 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-01-23 03:32 PM | Reply
Thing is that the majority of the money in that bill was not going for infrastructure. The dem play of naming a bill to get people behind it is the old bait-and-switch.
www.newsweek.com
#10 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-01-23 03:52 PM | Reply
#10 | Posted by MSgt
From your article: "Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, which estimated that three-quarters of the money the American Jobs Plan proposes spending over the next eight years will go toward infrastructure projects."
#11 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-23 03:57 PM | Reply
Can't even read your own link? It says only 6% went to roads and bridges. You realize there are many other types of infrastructure right? Or are you too dumb even for that?
#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 04:55 PM | Reply
@#6 ... we're not getting value for the hundreds of billions being spent. ...
OK, presuming the concerns your alias raises are correct, how would your alias want to spend the money differently than what a law passed in a bi-partisan manner?
Stated differently, it is easy to stand on the sidelines and criticize for the sake of criticizing, but it is more difficult to contribute to a solution. Yer up, what's yer got ...
#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 06:54 PM | Reply
@#13 ... Yer up, what's yer got ... ...
And, while we're on this topic, how many "Infrastructure Weeks" did Pres Trump declare during his first term?
And how many of those "Infrastructure Weeks" resulted in any tangible outcome?
The complaining about fmr Pres Biden's efforts and successes in this area seem to ring hollow.
#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 07:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Cali high speed rail. 23 billion spent 0 passenger miles. Rural internet. 47 billion 0 rural homes hooked up. EV charging stations. 7.5 billion allocated mayber 200 charging ports.
Not great.
#15 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-23 09:21 PM | Reply
Regressives, like Visitor, is the reason countries like Afghanistan are stuck in the stone ages.
#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-23 09:27 PM | Reply
We spent a lot in Afghanistan with nothing to show for it too.
#17 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-23 09:31 PM | Reply
@#15 ... Cali high speed rail. 23 billion spent 0 passenger miles. Rural internet. 47 billion 0 rural homes hooked up. EV charging stations. 7.5 billion allocated mayber 200 charging ports. ...
What your current alias seems to ignore, and it is something that I have noted before ...
Infrastructure projects do not happen overnight. They take many months, even years.
So the positive results of fmr Pres Biden's Infrastructure bill may not be seen until we are well into Pres Trump's reign.
And, I have no doubt that Pres Trump will be the one taking credit for those benefits, that he had nothing to do with besides criticism.
#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 09:39 PM | Reply
You repug ---------- got Pat Tillman killed and then tried to cover it up.
#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-23 09:40 PM | Reply
@#17 ... We spent a lot in Afghanistan with nothing to show for it too. ...
The resort of your current alias to an apples and oranges comparison merely reduces the worth of your argument.
Do try harder.
#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 09:42 PM | Reply
Asia and Europe are covered in efficient, high speed rail and public transport. Because social democracies take into consideration the needs of their citizens.
America chose the "free market" and the rich decided to hoard their money in a lot of creative ways.
Maybe in a centuries from now, their descendants can spend that money.
Unless America falls. Then it's just toilet paper.
#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-23 09:45 PM | Reply
... in a few* centuries from now ...
#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-23 09:47 PM | Reply
#15 | Posted by visitor_
...obama's birth certificate. not real. 2020 election. stolen. Climate change. Fake. Nazis. Cool again.
#23 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 11:37 PM | Reply
#17 | Posted by visitor_
So quit voting for the party that sent us in.
#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 11:38 PM | Reply
I Won't. The neocons have returned to the Democrat party.
#25 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-24 12:19 AM | Reply
@#25 ... I Won't. The neocons have returned to the Democrat party. ...
Vote as you want. But do vote.
That aspect aside, I do notice that your current alias seems to be either unable or reluctant to provide further comment upon the assertions it has posted.
Is my observation incorrect?
#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-24 12:56 AM | Reply
This is going thth Partieso be fantastic with Governors, Senators and Congressmen of both Parties but especially Republicans whining about his fulfilling his promises that he ran on and destroying the economy at the same time. This will leave halfway completed infrastructure projects for states to finish without the federal dollars that were allocated by Congerss which is unconstitutional and those Governors, Senators and Congressmen know that right now and are already preparing court challenges against yesterday's friend Trump! Invest in popcorn because this going to be a funny show! And wow! What a great kick off for the mid term elections! Trump is going to find Washington a bit lonely. of course, he could reverse course, but he won't his ego won't let him.
#27 | Posted by danni at 2025-01-24 04:09 AM | Reply
"Cali high speit may take lomger than a President's termed rail. 23 billion spent 0 passenger miles."
Same type of nrgativity existed when we nuilt the first cross continental railroad. It takes time to build a railroad and it may take onger than a President's term; big things take decades and President's serve four year terms, big things often do. Do you think the Interstate Highway System is a failure because it took far longer than Eisenhower's term in office to complete? Big things take decades which is why Congress authorizes big things not Presidents. "Visionaries" like Visitor are why Europe has high speed rail to wherever you want to go but America does not. Now Trump wants to stop infrastructure project presently under construction and leave states with partially completed roads, bridges, etc. which have already been approved by Congress thereby taking the "power of the purse" away from Congress which is unconstitutional so now we'll see if he meant the words of his oath, which most of us already knew he did not. And that is exactly why I refused to watch that liar take that oath again which he will dishonor immediately again! And he is already proving me right! Iit to Orlando and the theme parks theref other Presidents were like Trump nothing that takes over four years to build would have ever been built. When Obama left office the high speed rail system in Florida was not complete so Repyblivan governors stopped construction. It was complete from Fort Lauderdale to Miami and is heavily used and then they completed it to Orlando and the theme parks there which is where millions of tourists want to go and thething id great but it could have beenn with oba is great but it could havw bwwn done for one third of the cost if Republican goverbors hadn;t refused the federal dollars to complete it simply because Obama would have gotten the credit. They did the same stupid thing with Obamacare a/k/a the Affordable Care Act; they refused billions of dollars in federal dollars through Medicaid Expansion just because Obama would get the credit. Now ------- ------- Trump is going to cut back funding that pays for the only healthcare available to millions of children including those with long term conditions like Cystic Fibrosis and Muscular Distrophy which require expensive treatments poor parents can't afford. So this bastard is cutting off the lifeline fsor many thousands of children so that billionaires, like Musk, can have tax cuts they don't need. One irrefutable fact: Oba,acare saved thousands of lives by provifinf healthcare sevices which would have been denied without it! Now go to your Christian Church and brag about what good Christians you are. I'm pretty sure you recall how Jesus dealt with such folks as yourselves.
jesus
#28 | Posted by danni at 2025-01-24 05:24 AM | Reply
#25 | Posted by visitor_
Yes you will. Republicans sent us into afghanistan and lied us into iraq.
A democrat GOT US OUT of the mideast since trump lacked the balls.
#29 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-24 01:34 PM | Reply
It took six years to build the transcontinental railroad and it hauled freight and passengers during the time it was being built as each section was completed.
#30 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-24 01:36 PM | Reply
Republicans sent us into afghanistan and lied us into iraq.
LOL Both D's and R's sent the US in to afghanistan.
On September 14, 2001, Senate Joint Resolution 23 passed in the Senate by roll call vote. The totals in the Senate were: 98 Ayes, 0 Nays, 2 Present/Not Voting (Senators Larry Craig, R-ID, and Jesse Helms, R-NC). en.m.wikipedia.org
A democrat GOT US OUT of the mideast since trump lacked the balls. #29 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY
For the last 3 years Lumpers like you have been arguing its Trumps fault.
#31 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-24 01:42 PM | Reply
It took six years to build the transcontinental railroad and it hauled freight and passengers during the time it was being built as each section was completed. #30 | POSTED BY VISITOR_
Thats faster than the HSR in California!
#32 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-24 01:42 PM | Reply
Same type of nrgativity existed when we nuilt the first cross continental railroad.
This is false, reading history the trans continental railway was very popular because it united east and west, and enabled commercial transport across the continent.
#33 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-24 01:46 PM | Reply
Thanks in large part to Chinese labor.
#34 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-24 01:53 PM | Reply
------ these days can barely raise their little hands to type, much less swing a hammer.
SAD!
#35 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-24 02:19 PM | Reply
#30 | Posted by visitor_
in other words... "Bring back slaves!"
#36 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-24 03:19 PM | Reply
#31 | Posted by oneironaut
Trump negotiated a terrible deal which didn't take effect til he left office. Which allowed him to take credit if it worked and avoid blame if it didn't.
How many terrorists did he release from prison? 5000 ish?
#37 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-24 03:20 PM | Reply
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