MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Infrastructure Week Became a Joke. Now It’s for Real.
By artappraiser on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 2:37am |A deal with the Democrats may now be Trump’s best chance for a legislative win ahead of 2020.
By Elaina Plott @ TheAtlantic.com, May 3
[....] Tuesday, however, seemed to indicate a promising start. Around mid-morning, Trump met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, among other Democrats, to discuss a possible deal. Schumer emerged from the Oval Office meeting in good spirits, telling reporters that the threesome had agreed to pursue a $2 trillion plan to renovate highways, railroads, and bridges. Schumer said the group would meet again in three weeks, when Trump would present his plan for funding the project [....]
[....]The next three weeks could give way to a rare dynamic in the Trump era, in which the president and Democrats find themselves aligned, while Republicans act as the wild card.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trump-and-democrats-hope-strike-infrastructure-deal/588616/
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