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    Both parties agree infrastructure needs fixing. So why hasn’t it happened?

    May 22, 2019 3 minutes

    In the wee hours of the morning on Nov. 9, 2016, Donald Trump took to the podium for the first time as president-elect and promised to “begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation.”

    “We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals,” the former real estate mogul vowed. “We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure – which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it.”

    It was Mr. Trump’s most popular campaign promise, with

    Unsafe water, crumbling bridges‘Fix the Damn Roads’

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