After Amtrak Crash, Trump Plugs ‘Soon To Be Submitted Infrastructure Plan’

Emergency services respond to a mass casualty incident after Amtrak train 501 derailed onto Interstate 5 in DuPont, Wash, on December 18, 2017. The train was part of a new high speed service between Seattle and Portl... Emergency services respond to a mass casualty incident after Amtrak train 501 derailed onto Interstate 5 in DuPont, Wash, on December 18, 2017. The train was part of a new high speed service between Seattle and Portland. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Monday used a multi-casualty train crash to plug his promise to invest in the nation’s infrastructure.

Multiple people were killed after an Amtrak train crashed during its first trip on a new route outside Tacoma, Washington, a spokesperson for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Monday.

The President further addressed the incident during a speech later in the day.

Trump campaigned on the promise of a trillion-dollar investment in infrastructure projects nationwide.

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean his administration supports spending that much in tax dollars. Rather, Trump administration officials have promoted a plan of funding so-called public-private partnerships — in other words, publicly financing a fraction of that total sum in exchange for private companies further investing in, and profiting from, infrastructure projects.

Unnamed White House officials told CNBC earlier this month that details of a plan could emerge in January ahead of Trump’s first State of the Union address.

This post has been updated.

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  1. Avatar for schmed schmed says:

    Once again, the victims are an afterthought. I wonder what any god thinks of his “thoughts and prayers.”

  2. Soon like another year or two…maybe…?

  3. Oh God. Maybe they could have used say, 1.4 trillion dollars for infrastructure? I guess infrastructure doesn’t trickle down like corporate tax cuts, unless your sitting in a car on I-5 this morning.

  4. Hooray!! We’re leaving the Middle East!! Goodbye Afghanistan!!

    ---- what do you mean that’s not what he meant?

  5. Avatar for cuwrs cuwrs says:

    Barney Frank was on Lawrence on Friday lamenting that among the many, many horrible effects of the tax plan was that there was no money left for any promised infrastructure project.

    Unless, of course, they severely cut Medicare, SS, and Medicaid…which of course has been part of the tax plan strategy all along.

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