Showing posts with label Infrastructure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infrastructure. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

The White House: We Will Liberate Our Country

‘We will liberate our country’ 
Less than a month ago, President Donald J. Trump laid out a bold vision for defeating the opioid epidemic. In the weeks since, his Administration has taken further action to combat the crisis on all fronts:
  • On March 23, President Trump signed the omnibus funding bill, providing about $4 billion for addiction treatment and prevention, drug courts, and other tools to combat the crisis.
  • Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the results of the first operation led by the new Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) Team, which resulted in 8 arrests and the seizure of drugs and weapons.
  • The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) conducted a 45-day surge in February and March to investigate medical professionals who were prescribing disproportionately high numbers of opioids. The surge led to 28 arrests and 147 revoked medical registrations.
“Failure is not an option. Addiction is not our future,” President Trump says. “We will liberate our country from this crisis.”

Step 1 to better infrastructure: Stop Washington infighting Investing in a rebuild of America’s crumbling infrastructure is important, but President Trump knows funding will only help if we fix our country’s broken approval process. Inefficient environmental reviews have led to unnecessary delays, depriving our communities of needed projects.
Yesterday, President Trump gathered Federal agency leaders to sign the One Federal Decision Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), establishing a quicker process for environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects. Instead of expecting project sponsors to navigate multiple decision-making layers, one lead agency will be responsible for navigating each project through the entire process.
Previous interagency disputes sometimes remained unresolved for years. Americans deserve better than this Byzantine system. With yesterday’s MOU, President Trump is helping repair it.

President meets with military leaders 
Top U.S. defense and military leaders met with President Trump last night, joining the Commander in Chief for dinner and meeting beforehand to review progress in protecting America’s interests at home and abroad.
The President reiterated his commitment to rebuilding our Nation’s Armed Forces, including through the budget agreement he made with Congress that invests more than $1.4 trillion in defense over the next two years. This budget supports efforts to recover readiness, grow the force, buy more modern equipment, and give our troops a much deserved pay raise.
Yesterday, President Trump also addressed this weekend’s chemical weapons attack in Syria. “This is about humanity, we're talking about humanity, and it can't be allowed to happen," the President said. He reiterated that all options remain on the table for a U.S. response.

PHOTO OF THE DAY


First Lady Melania Trump participates in a listening session with students | April 9, 2018 (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

POTUS TODAY

Today, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will meet and participate in a working lunch with the Amir of the State of Qatar.
In the afternoon, the President will host the 2017 NCAA Football National Champions: The Alabama Crimson Tide at the White House.
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Sunday, March 25, 2018

White House Resolute Reads: Women in Business, Infrastructure, Right to Try, and Death Penalty for Drug Dealers

REAL NEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO MISS


- The Hill
“Evidence that policies focused on growth and economic mobility greatly improve the lives of women is everywhere,” fiscal policy expert Mattie Duppler writes in The Hill. Duppler highlights how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by President Donald J. Trump has improved the landscape for women, whether they are “workers, or bosses, or stay-at-home moms.”
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- Reuters
“U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal prosecutors on Wednesday to seek the death penalty in drug-related cases whenever it is ‘appropriate,’ saying the Justice Department must boost efforts to counter America’s epidemic of opioid abuse,” Reuters reports. The Attorney General’s remarks came after President Trump announced a detailed plan on the opioid crisis earlier this week.
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- The Daily Signal
Senior leaders from across the Administration—including President Trump himself—fielded a range of questions Thursday at Generation Next, a White House forum for millennials. Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump sat down with The Daily Signal for a Q&A, explaining why she thinks “this is a moment of incredible opportunity” for women in America.
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- The New York Times
On Wednesday, the Trump Administration tapped Dr. Robert R. Redfield, cofounder of the Institute for Human Virology, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Redfield has “decades of science and clinical work – especially in the field of H.I.V./AIDS.” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar called Dr. Redfield “peerless” in his depth of experience.
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- The Washington Free Beacon
“Trump called for the use of the death penalty in certain drug-trafficking related cases as part of the announcement on Monday of his administration's strategy for combatting the opioid epidemic,” Charles Fain Lehman reports. By Thursday, five Republican lawmakers had announced a new bill that would toughen the charges facing dealers who traffic in fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid.
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- The New York Times
“The House, spurred on by President Trump, passed a bill on Wednesday that would give patients with terminal illnesses a right to try unproven experimental treatments,” Robert Pear reports. Proponents of the bill say it will “give dying patients a chance to obtain potentially helpful prescription drugs without waiting for the completion of clinical trials.”
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- USA Today
On Thursday, President Trump participated in a Q&A with conservative advocate Charlie Kirk at the White House’s Generation Next forum. Their conversation covered taxes, trade policy, and what advice the President would give to a 25-year-old Donald Trump today.
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- The Washington Times
“Investment in infrastructure is coming at just the right time for America,” Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) writes this week. “Over the past year, the Trump administration has listened to states while developing policy proposals.” Gov. Ricketts joined President Trump at the White House when the President unveiled his plan for rebuilding American infrastructure last month.
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- The Washington Free Beacon
Travel for President Obama’s EPA Administrators cost taxpayers roughly $1 million, The Washington Free Beacon reports. “The double-standard couldn't be more clear: Under Barack Obama's EPA the media chose not to report on expenditures to protect the EPA administrator for international travel or the costs of their trips," EPA Spokesman Jahan Wilcox said.
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Friday, February 23, 2018

The White House: Ignore Spin on Tax Cuts, Let's Rebuild American Infrastructure

The White House press releases and correspondence deliver the news that the liberal mainstream media refuse to talk about. 

In spite of the hectic, relentlessly negative spin, the truth is that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is working. It is working for working Americans as well as major companies expanding their operations, hiring more workers, getting more goods and services to an economic which struggled through epic stagnation under 8 years of the Obama Administration.

Tax cuts, wage hikes, bonuses, all of this has rolled out because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Way to Go, President Trump and GOP Majority!

In other news, President Trump is gearing up to get a bipartisan infrastructure bill passed through Congress. Even my Congressman, Lyin' Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), is on board for this proposal. Democrats cannot deny that they want to spend more federal tax dollars. President Trump is promoting this proposal to look like Big Government boondoggles, but in fact the federal government will invest a small portion while inducing the states to provide the rest.

That's the way it should be. I would like the larger bill to include amendments which restore states' rights and responsibilities over their individual roads, waterways, bridges, highways, etc. Why not provide incentives for states which privatize the operation and upkeep of their public highways and byways, too? Indiana has been doing that for the last eight years, for example, saving the state millions of dollars. This proposal is necessary and noteworthy, too, because high-tax, low-service states like California could not depend on federal tax dollars for their infrastructure.

When James Inhofe and Sheldon Whitehouse agree on something, you know that the legislation.

Results drown out spin 
On January 11, less than three weeks after President Donald J. Trump signed the most sweeping tax overhaul in American history, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) labeled the benefits that American workers are seeing as “crumbs.”
That comment hasn’t aged well. According to a New York Times poll conducted by SurveyMonkey this month, a majority of Americans approve of the tax law signed by President Trump in December. There is little mystery why. As of this week, 377 companies have announced worker bonuses, raises, or 401(k) boosts as a result of tax cuts, according to the nonprofit Americans for Tax Reform.
Even some Democrats are breaking from Rep. Pelosi’s line. “I wouldn't say a couple thousand dollars a year is ‘crumbs,’” Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) said. He’s exactly right.

Watch President Trump speak live at CPAC at 10:05 a.m. ET 
The Trump Administration is making a strong showing this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s 2018 annual meeting. The lineup includes Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, and other senior Administration officials.
Today, President Trump joins that list with a keynote address to the conference.
“I stand here today with profound gratitude to say that because of all of you, because of the conservative majorities in Congress that you helped elect, and because of the strong leadership of the President you put in the White House, 2017 was the most consequential year in the history of the conservative movement,” Vice President Pence told CPAC attendees yesterday.
“And tomorrow, you’ll hear firsthand from the man who galvanized that movement.”

Bipartisan support builds for the President’s infrastructure plan 
Two senators from opposite sides of the aisle—Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)—took to The Wall Street Journal this week to join the President’s call for a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“During his State of the Union address, President Trump called for a broad bipartisan infrastructure package, pledging to improve the nation’s infrastructure and invest in the future,” the pair wrote. “We know that it can, and will, happen.”
The senators are right—and most Americans agree. According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, 65 percent of likely voters favor President Trump’s bold plan to rebuild American infrastructure. That plan starts with getting Washington out of the way.“Americans should welcome news that President Trump has included regulatory streamlining in his infrastructure proposal,” the editorial board of The Oklahomanwrites.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

President Donald J. Trump meets with state and local officials to discuss school safety | February 22, 2018 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

POTUS TODAY

This afternoon, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will welcome Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Mrs. Turnbull of Australia to the White House. The two leaders will meet before participating in a working lunch, and later hold a joint press conference. In the afternoon, the President will meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Today, Vice President Pence and the Second Lady will host a luncheon for members of the National Governors Association. The Vice President will later participate in a meeting with Prime Minister Turnbull.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

The White House: Make American Infrastructure Great Again!

Our infrastructure is broken 
Years of inaction have allowed American infrastructure to degrade into a state of disrepair. With yesterday’s release of President Donald J. Trump’s Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure in America, the Administration is committed to reversing this sad course.
Here are the facts:
  • One out of every five miles of highway pavement in the United States is in poor condition.
  • More than 50,000 American bridges are rated as “structurally deficient.”
  • Commute times have increased every year since 2009—and more than 40 percent of urban interstate miles are congested.
  • Nearly 40 percent of Americans living in rural areas lack sufficient broadband access.
  • Lengthy reviews hold up infrastructure projects for years.
  • The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that failing to meet our infrastructure needs will cost us $4 trillion in GDP and 2.5 million jobs by 2025.


An American budget 
Yesterday, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney released the Fiscal Year 2019 Budget for the U.S. Government: “Efficient, Effective, Accountable: An American Budget.”
“As a nation, we face difficult times—challenged by a crumbling infrastructure, growing deficits, rogue nations, and irresponsible Washington spending,” Director Mulvaney said. “Through this budget proposal, it is clear that the President and this Administration are determined to reverse these trends.”
Seven things to know about the President’s budget:
  • It provides for a robust and rebuilt national defense.
  • It promotes a healthy American economy.
  • It curbs wasteful Washington spending.
  • It supports the President’s innovative infrastructure initiative.
  • It secures our porous southern border and strengthens enforcement of immigration law.
  • It keeps our commitment to improving veterans’ health.
  • It combats the opioids epidemic.


Watch: Let the Games begin 
Vice President Mike Pence arrived in South Korea last week with Second Lady Karen Pence to lead the American Olympic Delegation for the 2018 Winter Games. He attended the Opening Ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Friday.
The Vice President met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in ahead of the Games, discussing how the United States and our global allies will continue to intensify a maximum pressure campaign on North Korea until it abandons its nuclear and ballistic missile programs once and for all.
“We will protect our peoples. We will defend our freedom. And together, we will forge a future of security, prosperity, and peace for both of our nations for generations to come,” the Vice President said.

PHOTO OF THE DAY


President Donald J. Trump at an infrastructure initiative meeting | February 11, 2018 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

POTUS TODAY

This morning, President Trump will host a meeting with members of Congress on trade. Later, the President will host a roundtable with the National Sheriff's Association. In the afternoon, the President and First Lady will host a National African American History Month reception.
Today, Vice President Pence will deliver remarks at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Later, the Vice President will participate in the Senate Republican Policy Lunch.
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