Infrastructure Investments Support American Manufacturing and Jobs

If any issue held out the promise of bipartisan agreement in Washington DC, it was the need for a comprehensive infrastructure plan. President Trump campaigned on the issue. Both parties supported the kind of investment that would bring jobs and quality of life improvements to communities nationwide. While all agree there is no free lunch, all equally agreed the money needed to be found. The current political environment in Washington, and even in many states, makes it difficult to reach bipartisan consensus on almost anything, even infrastructure. Still, if anything is to get done, infrastructure clearly tops the list of what should be possible. Central to any infrastructure debate must be reauthorization of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. Most stakeholders in city and state government fret over the money for roads and bridges in the proposed bill.