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“first I want to talk about infrastructure. This week, the administration is laying out a few ``proposals'' on infrastructure. So far, it has been a major disappointment. President Trump pitched a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan in his campaign and continued to mention it in the days after the election. We Democrats welcomed the idea. One of my first conversations with the President after he was elected was about infrastructure. I said: You called for a trillion-dollar infrastructure program. He said to me: At least that. I said: Sounds good to me. Let's work on it. We have made overtures to the White House saying we would be willing to work with the President on infrastructure. I said it to the President directly several times. Democrats have been pushing for new money for infrastructure for a very long time. We even put out our own proposal, a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan, hoping it would spark a discussion. We Democrats continue to welcome a serious and constructive dialogue on this issue, but unfortunately the President continues to disappoint. We sent our plan several months ago, and we have heard nothing for those months. Now the President seems to be intent on pushing forward an infrastructure plan on his own, one with few details, that is mostly private sector driven--that means tolls--and with minimum investment, and that would ignore a huge section of our infrastructure.…”