The Kansas City (MO) Star, 1/25:
List of 50 infrastructure projects used by Trump transition team came from consulting firm
A draft list of 50 major infrastructure projects compiled and shared by President Donald Trump’s transition team was put together by a Washington-based consulting firm, McClatchy has learned.
The list surfaced in documents obtained Tuesday by The Kansas City Star and News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., both McClatchy papers. McClatchy reported that the Trump team had given the list to the National Governors Association.
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The list of projects is not a final decision of the Trump administration’s priorities. States were advised that their suggested infrastructure projects were not binding.
“Once the new Administration takes office, there will be a more formal process for states to submit information,” the National Governors Association’s letter reads. “Projects will be chosen through a more formal process as well.”
The Trump administration, according to the National Governors Association, would prioritize projects that were considered national security or public safety emergency projects, those that had at least 30 percent of initial design and engineering work already completed, and those that would create jobs and had potential for increased domestic manufacturing.
Several publications picked up on Tuesday’s story, some questioning if certain states were omitted from consideration based on political calculations. California and Rhode Island, for example, were two heavily Democratic-voting states that did not have any infrastructure projects on the Trump transition team’s initial list.
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