President Donald Trump criticized the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases, breaking with more than two decades of White House tradition of avoiding comments on monetary policy out of respect for the independence of the U.S. central bank.
White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett said worries about U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs that have already been imposed aren’t showing up in jobs data.
Bruising political fights over Obamacare and tax reform may have killed the chances for Trump's infrastructure plan, leaving state and local governments to lead the way.
Transportation lobbyists and researchers discussing surface transportation finance during an Infrastructure Week webcast were unanimous in saying that Congress should lift the general prohibition on tolling interstate highways.
President Donald Trump may hope his tariffs on imported steel and aluminum will create new jobs, but researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said the opposite outcome was more likely.
The revenue procedure implements a proposal in President Trump's infrastructure plan that will help facilitate public-private partnership arrangements.
Gribbin's resignation, which followed Gary Cohn's departure, means that the two major administration officials charged with developing and selling the president's infrastructure plan are gone.
