Elaine Chao: “There was never any Federal commitment. It was a verbal commitment, a verbal sentence given at a rally, a political…”

I believe in a peaceful transfer of power. I believe in democracy.

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.

We want all funding and financing options to be available, because that is going to be the biggest challenge facing this infrastructure proposal.

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.