Democrats resisted the GOP on the now-passed and signed into law tax bill.
Will there be bipartisanship on an issue that they often champion, infrastructure?
Energy and infrastructure are the kinds of higher-paying jobs that cause housing companies – including manufactured home (MH) producers – to see more sales.
Several of those specifics – such as roads and bridges – could be near and dear to the hearts of transporters and other MH industry professionals.
Some believe there will be a bipartisan push, but many are doubtful.
The President of the United States (POTUS), Donald J. Trump, is sounding confident.
“In 2018 we have a BOLD agenda ahead of ourselves,” said a message delivered under President Trump’s name from the White House. “We will build the wall, we will enhance our broken infrastructure, and we will replace our mindless diversity-visa-lottery immigration system where anyone and their cousins can come in with an America First MERIT-based system,” said the statement to the Daily Business News.
The Fox Business video below brings in voices from the pro-Democratic and the pro-Republican camps.
With Bernie Sanders making a widely reported statement that acknowledges that the POTUS Trump/GOP tax bill will in fact help the middle class, but made a caveat that it is temporary vs. the permeant cuts for businesses, there could end up pressure on Democrats to join Republicans in 2018 to make the middle-class tax cuts permeant.
That in turn could become a factor on this infrastructure issue.
The political chess match is on.
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