{"id":4654,"date":"2018-02-14T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/sen-merkley-deems-infrastructure-plan-inefficient\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:08:25","slug":"sen-merkley-deems-infrastructure-plan-inefficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/sen-merkley-deems-infrastructure-plan-inefficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Merkley deems infrastructure plan inefficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\">MEDFORD, Ore. &mdash;&nbsp;<\/span>President Trump announced his proposed infrastructure plan on Monday and now senator Jeff Merkley is responding to it.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has called for a $1.5 trillion plan to upgrade highways, railroads and airports.<\/p>\n<p>However, 70 percent of that funding is being asked of individual states and private investors, something Senator Merkley says is unnecessarily costly.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">MEDFORD, Ore. &mdash;&nbsp;<\/span>President Trump announced his proposed infrastructure plan on Monday and now senator Jeff Merkley is responding to it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"component-ddb-5x5-v2 ddb-no-margin position-1\">\n<div id=\"adslot2\" data-google-query-id=\"CKC5u_i6odoCFZVJDAodaCsDAQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/KTVL\/Web\/news\/local_6__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/KTVL\/Web\/news\/local_6\" title=\"contenido de anuncios de terceros\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/KTVL\/Web\/news\/local_6\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Trump has called for a $1.5 trillion plan to upgrade highways, railroads and airports.<\/p>\n<p>However, 70 percent of that funding is being asked of individual states and private investors, something Senator Merkley says is unnecessarily costly.<iframe class=\"teads-resize\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"teads-ui-components-label\">ADVERTISING<\/div>\n<div class=\"teads-player\" id=\"teads0\"><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"component-ddb-1x1-v2 ddb-no-margin position-2\">\n<div id=\"adslot1\" data-google-query-id=\"CLjRuvi6odoCFSy-swod1MICqw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/KTVL\/Web\/news\/local_5__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/KTVL\/Web\/news\/local_5\" title=\"contenido de anuncios de terceros\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/KTVL\/Web\/news\/local_5\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This involves paying Wall Street middlemen an incentive payment so that they will do tolls on America&#8217;s from here to eternity. These Trump tolls are not going to be popular anywhere and they&#8217;re terribly inefficient. They cost so much more than investing directly,&#8221; said Senator Merkley.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Merkley would like to see direct investment instead , so the public owns the roads and they&#8217;re free when they&#8217;re built.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDFORD, Ore. &mdash;&nbsp;President Trump announced his proposed infrastructure plan on Monday and now senator Jeff Merkley is responding to it. President Trump has called for a $1.5 trillion plan to upgrade highways, railroads and airports. 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