While infrastructure initially was seen as an area where Republican and Democrats could work together, Democrats have balked at Trump's plan for using tax incentives and public-private partnerships to finance improvements.
Trump compared the scope of his plan to some of the biggest projects in the history of the country - the building of the transcontinental railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Interstate Highway System.
Trump will connect the need for a boost in infrastructure investment to jobs and on Wednesday will be flanked by barges of West Virginia coal floating in the Ohio River, long a connection between coal in Kentucky and West Virginia and steel mills in western Pennsylvania.
"America wants to build", Trump said.
Whalen's monthly premiums have quadrupled and she has a $15,000 deductible, post Obamacare, Trump said.
In his speech at the Rivertowne Marina, Trump revealed his infrastructure plans include $1 trillion in public and private investment.
Trump supplemented his discussion of infrastructure by mentioning the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, a government program that reportedly allows the private sector to access low-priced government loans in order to leverage federal cash with funding for the state, local and private-sector levels.
"We're here today to talk about rebuilding our nation's infrastructure".
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"As of a few months ago, we spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, along with the deaths of so many incredible people", he said. "We have to figure out how to make it work".
Trump pointed to a government program that allows the private sector to tap into low-priced government loans called the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act as a way to leverage federal funds with state, local, and private sector funding.
He urged senators to take up the House's bill with haste yesterday during a meeting with GOP leaders at the White House as well.
"We will fix it", said Trump, standing along the Ohio River.
Trump spoke a day after it was revealed that Anthem Inc will not participate in Ohio's insurance exchange next year, a decision which threatens to trigger a crisis in the healthcare system, Reuters reported.
Of Trump and even his closest lieutenants, Stone said "they don't speak with one voice".
The infrastructure push comes as the White House seeks to refocus attention on core promises to boost jobs and the economy that Trump made past year during his presidential campaign. And that's even before former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump has appeared to admit firing in part to ease his worries over the bureau's Russian Federation probe, testifies in what is being called the "Super Bowl" of recent congressional hearings on Thursday.
Comey will be questioned in particular on his contention that Trump asked him to end the FBI investigation into Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, about Flynn's alleged ties to Russians, and possible collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign.
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