Trump’s promise of $1 Trillion federal funding for airports, dams, levies, water treatment plants, rail & mass transit and other infrastructure, now reduced to $200 Billion federal, changing, for example, the traditional 80/20 federal/state split for hi ways to a “new” 20/80 federal/state split.
Trump’s bait-and-switch from campaign to governing encourages
“public-private partnerships” (programs with typically low rate loans for private for-profit corporations and use charges -like tolls to provide profits for the same corporations).
Since many infrastructure projects affect multiple states (think hi ways, bridges and airports, dams, energy, hazardous waste, ports), it’s unclear how the federal government will fulfill its Constitutional role to “regulate commerce …among the several States” (United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.