Abstract
One of the major components of President Trump’s campaign platform was a promise to make a massive investment in infrastructure spending in the United States. The Trump Administration has recently released a detailed proposal to honor its promises. The proposal contains measures such expanding expenditures on roads and bridges as well as offering greater broadband access to rural residents. The bill has attempted to strike a balance between offering more services and jobs to President Trump’s core supporters in so-called red states while also honoring the Republican commitment to smaller government.
White House Stimulus Plan
Historically, investing in transportation has been used by both Democratic and Republican administrations to stimulate a flagging economy or to ensure that a healthy economy continues to thrive. Unlike making major investments in social programs or defense, transportation and infrastructure is a more bipartisan and less controversial approach to stimulus, since it both employs workers from a variety of economic classes, involves private industry as well as government, and will yield dividends by improving both transportation for businesses as well as travel for taxpayers. However, the most recent transportation stimulus package released by the Trump Administration is still likely to be quite controversial.
The Trump Administration’s transportation stimulus package includes a mix of traditional as well as uniquely 21st century goals, spanning from investing in or improving roads and bridges; energy-related investments; improving broadband coverage; and rehabilitating veteran’s hospitals (Zanona 2017). “The goal is to use $200 billion in federal funding to create $1 trillion worth of overall infrastructure investment over 10 years, with a focus on public-private partnerships and permit reform” (Zanona 2017, par.7). The Trump Administration also claims ending net neutrality will stimulate interest in investment in broadband by new companies and generate more competition (Zanona 2017).
Expanding rural broadband is seen as a critical component of getting rural Republicans on board with the stimulus plan, and the emphasis, as consistent with the Trump Administration’s philosophy, will be focused upon working with private enterprise, rather than expanding the role of government to provide broadband to underserved areas. Although the Trump Administration is a Republican administration, there is still resistance among many Republican fiscal conservatives to supporting such a massive investment package, and the...
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