Elaine Chao: “I think we all need to take a look at the balances outstanding”

Our nation's infrastructure is the backbone of our world class economy, the most productive, flexible, and dynamic in the world.

we probably will not have enough skilled trades workers to be able to address all the infrastructure needs when it finally gets all going . . . So, the workforce training and retraining part is important.

So the issue is not only how much to fund our infrastructure projects, but also how to increase the pipeline of available projects.

We need to have a national discussion about this.