In his first term, Trump promised to build new roads, bridges, airports and railways. This time he seems more invested in tearing things down.

By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main

Remember Donald Trump, the champion of national infrastructure?

Amid his outsized fixations — making immigrants the bane of the country and bolstering tax cuts for the rich — it’s easy to forget that during his first term, the man who made his name as a private developer repeatedly promised to fix the nation’s “crumbling infrastructure.” He promised to do far better than the first GOP “infrastructure president,” Dwight Eisenhower.

Between 2017 and 2019, Trump proposed spending as much as $2 trillion to upgrade America’s roads, bridges and airports. He sought bipartisan support for massive projects that, he

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