If you want big-league infrastructure, a good place to start is not making huge cuts to infrastructure programs that already work.
The fiscal bottom line is so far out of whack and the budget so deep in fantasy land.
The administration's infrastructure plan is fiction upon fiction upon fiction.
The idea that the tax cuts would pay for themselves is far from the only misleading statement about the tax law.
Revenue, according to the budget projections, is about to plummet: $300 billion short in 2018, $400 billion short in 2019.
I have repeatedly asked the Treasury Department to turn over to the committee its records on Russian financial transactions in the country.
Not one request has been honored.
So it seems to me you are definitely agreeing with the officials who were quoted last weekend.
Despite that, the core of the Trump infrastructure plan is for the States and localities to pony up even more money.
cutting back the SALT deduction makes it more difficult for local governments to raise new revenues.
Sometimes it reminds me of the marquee at the old movie house where these so-called 'fixes' are supposed to somehow show up and never get th...