Climate denier Steve Bannon says the infrastructure plan was his idea As President-elect Donald Trump?s transition team starts to make key nomination in Cabinet positions, nothing has been publicly announced about the country?s transportation future. But a few new details that have emerged about Trump?s so-called ?infrastructure plan? are deeply troubling to advocates who were hoping it might fund forward-thinking, clean-energy transportation solutions.
In The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Wolff gets the first post-election interview with Steve Bannon, the Breitbart editor and noted alt-right ringleader who is now one of Trump?s most senior White House advisors. (He?s not a white nationalist, Bannon tells Wolff, he?s an economic nationalist. Uh, okay.) In the interview, Bannon tells Wolff that Trump?s $1 trillion infrastructure plan was his idea:
?Like [Andrew] Jackson?s populism, we?re going to build an entirely new political movement,? he says. ?It?s everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I?m the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it?s the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Ship yards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We?re just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution?conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement.?
The ?jacked up? construction indus...