Elaine Chao: “This is an opportunity for bipartisan agreement and for us to all work together to build a better America.”

Many of these regulations can slow down a project and stifle that economic progress, can create uncertainty for businesses, the project itself, increase the time it takes to construct the project, increase the cost of that project.

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

The President, yes, the President is concerned about the viability of this project, and the fact that New York and New Jersey have no skin in the game.

No political pressure is going to take one of those projects, put it at the head of the line, ahead of all other projects, which is what is happening in this particular case.