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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union speech Tuesday, presenting an upbeat vision of the country and focusing on his economic and regulatory successes that played well with his GOP base.
President Trump will use his State of the Union address on Tuesday to make another push for his infrastructure plan, a key part of the speech’s theme of “building a safe, strong and proud America.”
Rural infrastructure projects would get 25 percent of the total amount of funding in President Trump’s infrastructure program, according to a leaked document.
After scoring a major political victory with the passage of tax reform legislation in December, the Trump White House hopes to notch another win by passing legislation to upgrade the nation’s neglected infrastructure, including highways, bridges, broadband and marine transportation systems.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 – CSX Transportation says criticisms of its recent rail system performance are merited, but they’re going to stick with a turnaround plan that shippers and others say is light on necessary data.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - The expanding concept of “rural infrastructure” was front and center Tuesday when the Farm Foundation gathered a panel of speakers from the agriculture, transportation and equipment sector.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2017 - Houston-area flooding in Hurricane Harvey’s wake has been deadly, costly, and persistent. Hurricane Irma is delivering more of the same. But the cumulative damage from these two record-breaking hurricanes could pale in comparison to the impacts of a sudden cyberattack on vital infrastructure resources.