Trump’s infrastructure plan focuses on reforms, not just more spending

In The Hill, Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH) writes that President Donald J. Trump’s infrastructure plan “outlines a bold vision encompassing everything from traditional transportation infrastructure such as highways, bridges and transit systems, to public water systems and even broadband internet access.” Rep. Gibbs explains that “President Trump’s infrastructure plan takes on the mountain of regulatory hurdles that slow down the projects critical for improving and maintaining our national infrastructure.”

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In The Washington Times, Stephen Dinan reports that President Trump held a White House roundtable discussion yesterday that puts pressure on sanctuary cities to drop their dangerous policies. Thomas Homan, deputy director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced that “three of the 800 illegal immigrants who managed to escape last month’s enforcement sweep in the San Francisco area have already gone on to commit new crimes, notching charges of robbery, drunken driving and spousal abuse.”

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“The Trump administration recently took an important step to demonstrate its commitment to its ‘America First’ agenda, dealing a blow to a foreign company’s attempted hostile takeover of a leading American company in 5G technology,” Heritage Foundation Trustee Bill Walton writes in The Daily Caller. “The Trump administration should be praised for taking this decisive action” in preventing Broadcom’s attempt to takeover Qualcomm, Walton says.

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The Daily Signal reports that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt “will reverse long-standing EPA policy allowing regulators to rely on nonpublic scientific data in crafting rules. Such studies have been used to justify tens of billions of dollars worth of regulations.” Michael Bastasch writes that “EPA regulators would only be allowed to consider scientific studies that make their data available for public scrutiny under Pruitt’s new policy.”