鈥淲e are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e'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.鈥�
He had previously set out his vision, including:
- providing maximum flexibility to the states;
- putting American steel made by American workers into the backbone of America鈥檚 infrastructure;
- leveraging new revenues and working with financing authorities, public-private partnerships, and other funding opportunities;
- linking increases in spending to reforms that streamline permitting and approvals, improve the project delivery system, and cut wasteful spending;
- employing incentive-based contracting to ensure projects are on time and on budget;
- approving private-sector energy infrastructure projects including pipelines and coal export facilities;
- making clean water a high priority;
- completing projects faster and at lower cost through significant regulatory reform and ending needless red-tape.聽
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