Infrastructure Week Became a Joke. Now It’s for Real.
A deal with the Democrats may now be Trump’s best chance for a legislative win ahead of 2020.
by Elaina Plott
May 03, 2019
3 minutes
Two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, Infrastructure Week has come to promise five business days of drama and discussion about almost anything other than infrastructure.
With campaign season ramping up, though, that may be about to change.
The origins of this story begin on a Friday in June 2017, when Gary Cohn, then the chairman of the National Economic Council, teased that the following Monday would kick off Infrastructure Week at the White House. There was reason to believe that the occasion, centered on an overhaul of the nation’s air-traffic-control system, could plant the
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