Lexington | Bridges to somewhere

摘要

DONALD TRUMP'S most encouraging promise in 2016 was his pledge to splurge a trillion dollars on America's roads, railways and "many, many bridges that are in danger of falling". Federal spending on infrastructure was at the lowest level in six decades. The need for such investment was as pressing as he claimed. And it seemed plausible that a non-ideological Republican, with a love of grand projects and debt, could be the man to get it done.