The president has invited executives from major airlines to join him as he kicks off the week with one of his more controversial plans: spinning off the air traffic control functions of the Federal Aviation Administration to a nonprofit corporation.
The events — billed as “infrastructure week” — are part of a stepped-up effort since the president’s return a week ago from his first foreign trip to show that the White House remains focused on its agenda, despite cascading headlines about investigations into his administration’s ties to Russia.
The president has invited executives from major airlines to join him as he kicks off the week with one of his more controversial plans: spinning off the air traffic control functions of the Federal Aviation Administration to a nonprofit corporation.
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In addition, Trump may let Congress answer one of the key questions hanging over his $1 trillion infrastructure package: how to pay for it. According to The Hill, the White House is debating whether to identify funding offsets when it releases a proposal or let lawmakers hash it out at the committee-level, officials said on a press call Friday.
Trump outlined a broad sketch of his infrastructure plan in his budget proposal last week, with a more detailed legislative package expected to land later this summer.
