DOT Secretary Nominee Adds to Skepticism About Big Spending Plan for Infrastructure
Photo Credit: Infrastructure improvement is going to be one of the key transportation priorities for the Trump Administration. Secretary of Transportation nominee Elaine Chao, right, is pictured here at a 2003 event with then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. United States Department of Defense / Helene C. Stikkel
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More evidence is mounting that Trump's infrastructure investment push won't be a traditional spending plan. Chao will likely have a major challenge in managing a plan cobbled together from a variety of financial incentives and other mechanisms.
Nobody knows how President-elect Trump's infrastructure improvement plan will be implemented and paid for, but his pick for transportation secretary dropped a big hint in new documents released by the Senate Commerce Committee.
Elaine Chao, in a questionnaire completed as part of her application for Secretary of Transportation, cites her second priority among three described as overseeing infrastructure improvement, in particular streamlining the process of planning and approving pr
