Infrastructure Quietly Coming to Boil, Unions Head Says

A “tremendous” amount of behind-the-scenes activity is taking place to propel President Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan forward, the president of North America’s Building Trades Unions told Bloomberg BNA.

Trump probably will move infrastructure to the forefront of priorities after dealing with health-care reform and potentially tax reform, NABTU President Sean McGarvey said March 15.

Meanwhile, the National Economic Council has gotten some “real quality people in place and on board” for launching an infrastructure program and is still filling key positions, he said. Outside experts are “putting white papers and policy positions together” to share with officials who will directly ...