Donald Trump Transportation News Updates

Government

Trump Castigates Global Trade Pacts; Lawmakers Caught in a Vice

WASHINGTON — Sens. Charles Grassley, a cantankerous Midwestern conservative, and Tim Kaine, a paint-by-the-numbers East Coast Democrat, don’t agree on very much. But when it comes to free trade, both are very worried.

September 27, 2016
Government

Ford Fires Back at Trump, Citing Booming US Commercial-Truck Output

Ford Motor Co., pushing back against criticism by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for moving work to Mexico, is highlighting its booming business in big trucks after shifting production to an Ohio factory from south of the border.

September 19, 2016
Government

Analysis: Two Experts Envision Trade Under President Trump — Goodbye, Wal-Mart

What would the U.S. economy look like without the trade deals of the past 70 years?

August 30, 2016
Government

Trump Says He’ll Spend More Than $500 Billion on Infrastructure

Donald Trump on Aug. 2 proposed a plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure that costs “at least double” the amount that Hillary Clinton has floated, in what would amount to a massive new government program.

August 2, 2016
Government, Business

Trump Promises Improved Infrastructure, Jobs if Elected

The country’s infrastructure would be modernized if he is elected, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told supporters during his acceptance speech in Cleveland on July 21.

July 22, 2016
Government

Rep. Graves Skeptical Next President Will Act on Transportation in First 100 Days

WASHINGTON — The next occupant of the White House will look to make a “huge splash” on myriad issues, but transportation funding will not be one of them, Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said at a conference here on July 14.

July 14, 2016
Government

Trump: Crumbling Infrastructure Can Be Fixed ‘Only By Me’

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told supporters in New York on June 22 that he would be the only presidential candidate able to repair the country’s deteriorating infrastructure.

June 23, 2016