HOLDING THEIR BREATH: An anti-terrorism drill in SeouI. Many believe the South Korean capital would get hit hard in a war between the し S. and Pyongyang. even though McMaster said every option "short Of war' was being considered, he also said a nuclear-capable North Korea is unacceptable [and] so the president has asked us t0 be prepared t0 give him a full range ofoptions t0 remove that threat tO the American people and tO our allies and partners in the region. ' HiS use Ofthe word 襯 0 リ seemed t0 imply a use offorce and made the governments in Seoul, T0kyo and Beijing nervous. Has Trump drawn a red line tO use all means necessary tO prevent North Korea from completing its intercontinental ballistic miSSile program? Or iS he dOing a "madman across the water ” bluff in order tO spook North Korea and instill some panic in the Chinese, hoping tO prod the latter intO using their economic leverage ( 85 percent Of North Korea s external trade is with China) tO rein in Kim? Former CIA analyst Klingner notes that, given the rapid ace@NortWKoreak2016tesEprogranvandthere tendency tO test a new president early, it might not be long before Trump gets reports of another North Korean long- issileornuclear te steThis is when thingycould ge very perilous. Another missile test does not constitute a crisis Of the sort that should trigger another Korean War. lt would, if anything, give the U. S. more leverage with China Pyongyango Yet all the chatter about pre-emption—some Of which has also N E W S W E E K 39 M A Y 0 5 , 2 017 lSSue itS own threats about pre-emption. ln a recent report widely read in the Pentagon and intel- ligence community, Klingner argued that the talk about pre-emptlon, and declarations that all options are on the table, needs to stop. "Advocacy of pre-emption both by North Korea and by the U. S. and its allies is destabilizing, he wrote, and could lead tO greater potential for either side tO miscalculate. Pyongyang may not realize that the more it demonstrates and threatens tO use 1tS nuclear prowess, the more likely allied action becomes during a crisis. Each side could misinterpret the other's intentions, thus fueling tension, intensifying a perceived need tO escalate, and raising the risk Of miscalculation, including pre-emptive attack, ” Klingner continued. "Even a tactical military incident on the Korean Peninsula always has the potential for escalating tO a strategic clash.With no appar- ent off-ramp on the highway t0 a crisis, the danger 0f a military clash on the Korean Peninsula is again rising. at iS where we are no 、 V. AS an alternatlve tO makin threats, several current and former diplomats, intelligence analysts and military offcers say, reducing tenslons now quire adyvquieedeploymentofadd itionaLmi ・ - tary har ware tO the reglon, as wel as a behind-the-scenes application 0f Chinese diplomatic muscle from what many analysts believe t0 be an increasingly exasperated BeiJing. ー Thoseare the thingsthaemaymget Kim Jong Un's head straight. One miscalculation away from the next Korean ar is way t00 close tO foranyones comfort. ロ

ツや式、一 the Amencan society of Civil Engineers gave the ー A しし PO 凵第 0 NS KNOW country a D + in its much-anticipated ()s least in the AS すリ 0 すリ三 construction industry) quadrennial report. The AS C E PROJECTS MAKE AN report also said it would take something like $ 2 trillion tO get the country's infrastructure mtO justfair shape. ECONOMY HUM. That's a staggering pnce tag, but this is a moon shot everyone seems tO want. This could be a great tme tO rally around a widely acknowledged problem (there's no fight over fake news; everyone can see the pot- ー Fathers. Alexander Hamilton favored an aggressive holes), and it's a decent tlme tO borrow big (interest program Of debt-financed 'finternal improvements ー rates are 10W ) t0 fund these much-needed repairs. But for roads, canals, ports and the like. His ideologi- that's unlikely, because in Washington, D. C. , quotid- cal heir, Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, made his ian fights over money derail even universally shared ー name in the early 1800S by promoting an Amen- goals: "Let's have great roads and world-class alr- can system" Of improvements that was even more ports ! " And it's not just another example Of congre s- aggressive than Hamilton's schemes for making the navparalysis. -AlLacrosstheIandY. voters demand 4 nafionalgovernment responsible for transportation needs. ln the 1850S , Abraham Linc01n's new Repub- solution but are unwilling t0 pay the taxes for it. Roads ー aren't the only things that are rutted, corrupted and ー lican party was committed t0 stopping the expanslon tiquated=Scis the political system that probably&f slavery but alsmbig -infrastructure projectsv ー can't fix them. ー mo st notably the construction Of the trans contine n- ー tal railroad. The apotheosis Of government infra- YO! STIMULATE THIS! structure was the building 0f the interstate highway owtcpave the natlon s roads, build its canals and ー system in the 1950S under another Republican pres- ident, Dwight Eisenhower. His sprawling ribbons of make itS natural abundance available for commerce e ssmg•ssue gomg backtothe 下 ounding -v•-oncrete change d Americ a , fueling the growth 0f the NO DAM GOOD: Trump is calling fO 「 a $ 1 trillion investment, but experts say it would take at least twice that much tO get the country's infrastructure injustfair shape. NEWSWEEK 43 MAY05 , 2017

are some things that work very nicely public/private. There are some things that don't. ” As with his flip -flop s on SO many ISSues, such as Syria, where he went 仕 0n1 adamant non-inter- ventlonist tO lobbing cnuse missiles at Bashar al-Assad's air force, no one can be sure what tO expect 仕 om this White House. Another problem with the tax-cut scheme is that it likely subsidizes pr0Jects already underway rather than spurrmg new investment. We don't want tO get intO a situation where it'S a giveaway for businesses wh0 are going tO d0 this anyway, says Sheldon Whitehouse, the Dem- ocratic senator from Rhode lsland. TRUMP WANTS す H ミ private investment is important, but it's by no means suffcient, ” says Ed Rendell, the former や IVA す三 3 CTO TO mayor 0f Philadelphia and governor 0f Pennsyl- BU に 0 ROADS AND vania WhO co-chairs Building America S Future, a BRIDGES THAT WOU 、 0 bipartisan group pushing for more infrastructure investments. Tax credits can only dO SO much. The PROFIT す n ミ M. lion's share has tO come from the federal govern- ment. Don t screw around. ー INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CRAPSHOOT an era Of cars getting better and better gas mileage, Even if the tax-cuts scheme could work, it wouldn't it brings in even less revenue every year. Five years really matter because Trump doesn't have a funding ago, Congress had t0 raid all kinds 0f other funds and engage in vanous fiscal gymnastics Just tO keep mechanism t0 pay for them. There are ideas being money going t0 the trust fund. That problem will ー kicked around Capit01 Hill about how t0 get at the tril- lions 0fd011arsAmencan corporations have sqmrreled only get worse as gas mileage lmproves. Any proposal t0 raise the gasoline tax is doomed away overseas because they don't want tO bring those in a Republican Congress, but if it's not in Trump s dollars home for fear 0f facing the U. S. 's notoriously ー plan, it should be, as should be some novel ideas high corporate tax rate. If the government dramat- like taxing people based on the number ofmiles they ー ically cuts taxes on repatriated money, the thinking drive, rather than hOW much gasoline they consume. goes, corporatlons will have more tO mvest here' and That would involve putting wireless meters on peo- e governmentwill pickup tax revenue, which can be ple's odometers, a modest bit oftechnology not that earmarked for infrastructure. That sounds like a HaiI different from electric meters in the home but likely Mary pass only because it is. And it seems unlikely tO raise an outcry about pnvacy from those whO fear such an "accommodation ” Of tax- ducking multina- e government is tracking them. tionals could ever get through Congress ・ SO far, though, Trump's big infrastructure initlatlve Another downer: Assume for a crazy-dreamer is bumping down the same troubled path he t00k on mome nt that an infrastructure plan based on tax cuts ー is feasible. lt still wouldn't do much for the unem- ー health care. Talk in glowing terms about a solution, 0 飛 r no details and build no public support for them— ployment rate because it is more likely t0 shuffe J0bs endropa plamnconereallylikes and watch it die. round than ℃ reatenewone That could be a criminal waste Of an opportunity Want a Hoover Dam—sized caveat? Even ifTrump because, as a builder, Trump has some cred on this could pass his plan and it works well, itwould only be e•timeshotat doesn't getatA11 anyof the under—&issue 、 -At -a meeting 0f build ing trade s workers im ymg causes 0f what ails American infrastructure. ー April' Trump boasted' "Did you ever think you d For instance, Amencans pay for highways largely ー see a president wh0 knows how much concrete and rebar you can lay down in a single day?" Maybe not' through the federal gasoline tax. But that tax hasn't een ralsed ⅲー 18 years, and a い 8.4 cents per gallono but the wobbly foundation 0fhis infrastructure plan suggests there are a 10t 0f things about being presi- for regular fuel ( 24.4 cents for diesel), it's negligible n&overwhelmed bythe-gyrationsof fuel price s 、 nt he still d0 esn't know. ロ SIDEWALK cLOSED NEWSWEEK 45 MAY05, 2017

But the Trump plan, at least what little we know suburbs and the mass adoption Ofthe car. All those politicians knew that infrastructure prOJ- about it, seems unlikely t0 get anyone safely 0 代 that ects make an economy hum. When done well (as Victonan-era bridge, let alone fix the many other oppose d t0 de molishing neighborhoods or building infrastructure blights, like the nation's ele ctrical gnd ・ bridges to nowhere), they make life better for many. The germ Of it is a paper written by economist peter And in times Of econonuc recesslon, puttlng people Navarro, a business schOOl professor turned trade tO work on shovel-ready JObs provides an important adviser in the protectionist Trump White House, and Keynesian sfimulus—albeit one that has less punch Wilbur Ross, the zillionmre secretary of commerce. lt's a crifique 0f Hillary Clinton's traditional call for a near-full employment economy, when you re Just turning baristas int0 bricklayers. That was the government-financed infrastructure spending and idea behind the Obama stimulus package 0f 2009 , instead promotes tax cuts as awayto getpnvate indus- which would have had more road monies if Republi- try t0 pay for road, bndge, sewer and 0ther repairs. cans hadn't insisted that the package be scaled down. Translation: Trump doesn't want the federal gov- The United States IS no longer ln a grinding reces- ー ernment t0 spend a 10t 0f money hiring people to sion, but Trump was right tO focus on infrastructure pave roads and build bridges. He likes a tax-cut plan during the preside ntial campaign. The country had designed t0 get the private sector t0 build roads and bridges that would turn a profit for ビ襯 . The cre- ative accounting is that you give $ 167 billion in tax 「 oR A PRESIDENT WITH cuts over 10 years, and it spurs something like $ 1 tril- lion in private mvestment. HIGH NEGATIVES, A ln the 0 Ⅳ , there 's nothing wrong with private inve st- 期 S ル三一 NFR R リ 0 ・ ment ⅲ infrastructure, but many desperately needed pr0Jects have little chance Of ever profiting investors. 刊 R 三一す E に EN れ 0 The folks who helped build a toll lane in suburban HAS す H 三 0 US リ AL Washington, D. C. , stand t0 get a good return on their APPEAL 0 ド BEING POP リ・ lnvestment because the roads there are crowded, and there are plenty ofwealthy drivers willing to pay LAR WITH EVERYBODY. for the so-called Lexus lanes. But there's no realis- tic prospect 0f a payout for fixing, say, a rural road ー in West Virginia. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan been spending about 20 percent less on water and blithely ignores such inconvenient truths as he touts transportation infrastructure than in 1959 —and his belief that every $ 1 in targeted tax cuts can spur that's while having to meet the demands of today's $ 40 Of infrastructure spending. Buried in an inter- much 01der and bigger network ofroads and sewers. ー view Trump did with The Ⅳ物 Times is his skep- The cost ofbringing it up tO a better standard is "the ticism about private financing. 'We haven t made a determination as tO public/private," he said. "There price 0f a latte per day, per family—not even for an individual," says Greg DiLoret0, the former head of the TuaIatin VaIIey Water District ⅲ Oregon and infrastructure chair at the ASCE. THE BRIDGE FROM 1840 When the Oroville dam burst in Northern California earlier this year, it was yet another reminder (like the collapse 0f an interstate highway bridge in Minne- SOta in 2007 ) that infrastructure repairs are urgently needed—north, south, east and west, red state and blue state, big city and small town. ln Washington, D. C. , the famed MemoriaI Bridge needs serious repairs. ln northern New Jersey, the Portal Bridge on the northeast rail corridor is 104 years Old, based on a design popular in Britain in the 1840S and partly made 0f wood. Across the country, ASCE found 60 , 000 bridges that are structurally deficient. Jenni- fer COhan, Delaware 's transp ortation se cretary, car- ries around a piece Of concrete that Ⅱ from one Of the state's bridges. She doesn't need t0 be hit over the head with a brick t0 know America is falling apart. TOOLTIME: Repairing America's infrastructure iS a good issue fo 「 Trump, WhO iS known (rightly 0 「 wrongly) as a successful developer. 衄 1 Ⅱ N E W S W E E K 44 M A Y 0 5 . 2 017

documents: his work permit and identification card. His infraction: littering. Masoud waite d for hours until the guard returned the documents. BY then, he'd already lost the day ofwork. For many years, most Of the lsraeli men and women working these checkpoints were SOI- diers in the lsraeli army. But a decade ago, the crossing Masoud passed through—known as sha'ar Efraim in Hebrew and Al-Tayba in Ara- Arab states. And over the past five decades, its bic—was among the first tO privatize. NOW, occupation Of those temtories has changed con- lsraeli private security guards are mcreasingly siderably. After nearly 30 years 0f lsraeli rule, the common in the West Bank. 1994 Os10 accords created the Palestinian Author- These guards are part Of a lucrative industry that benefits from $ 200 million a year in gov- lty—which actS as a seml-autonomous govern- ment in parts 0fthe West Bank and in Gaza—and ernment contracts in the West Bank. TOday' deferred Jerusalem s status tO future negofiations. there are more than 30 crossing points between Those talks remain stalled, but the PA works lsrael and the West Bank and Gaza; since the closely with lsrael on secunty issues in the West mid-2000s, about half 0f them have fully or B ank, which angers many Pale stinians. (For the partially outsourced security tO lsraeli compa- past decade, the militant group H amas has ruled nies. The Ministry Of Defense does not directly Gaza, which is currently under lsraeli-Egypt1an employ guards, but it does contract the compa- blockade. ) After the second intifada ()r Palestin- nies that hire them and oversees training, sala- ianuprising) inthe earlY2000S the lsraeli military and working conditions. began to build a barrier between lsrael and the The Defense Ministry and Border P01ice declined t0 comment for this artlcle , but support- ers Of the shift tO using private security guards at crossing points say it is supposed tO make it easier NO MATTER WHO IS IN for both lsraelis and palestinians tO navigate the checkpoints, where violence Often erupts. CHARGE, PALESTINIANS bad for young soldiers t0 have t0 deal with move- HAVE LONG LOATHED ments ofpeople and cargo in an ongoing conflict, says Baruch Spiegel, a retired lsraeli brigadie r gen- THE CHECKPOINTS. eral and senior Ministry ofDefense adviser. 'And' ofcourse, it was bad for the image oflsrael. " llan paz, former head Of the lsraeli Defense Forces Civil Administration, the governing West Bank, and set up checkpoints throughout t0 body in the west Bank, agrees, saying the work thwart potential as sailants. (Pale stinians say they is best suited for civilians with consistent hours are part 0fan effort t0 take their land. ) and guidelines. For the lsraeli, it is not accept- lsrael started as a quasi-socialist state, but able that l'm sending my child to the army and since the 1980 waves Of privatization, particu- in the end he's working at these checkpoints. larly under prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lt's not an army issue. lt's not something that have reshaped the country and dismantled parts can done by an 18-year-01d. Of the welfare state. The move toward private But some critics say the creepmg pnvatiza- security in the west Bank, which began ⅲ the tion oflsraeli security in the West Bank and East mid -2000S , IS an extension Ofthat. Jerusalem is another way the country is further Some see this shift as an attempt tO sustain the cementing itS occupation Of these upatio n Of the We st B ank—bygettinglsraelis hiclvxeducesfthedlance s 0f th e re eve r b eing tO forget about it. MOSt Jewish lsraelis have tO a Palestinian state—or a peaceful end tO the serve in the military, and many have worked at lt's part Of sustaining the status quo, conflict. ー the checkpoints. Now, that's changing' and fewer aysmorNolinz lsraeli -re se archeromthis and fewer lsraelis have firsthand experience with phenomenon and a ph. D. candidate at the Uni- them, as working the checkpoints becomes J11St versity Of Amsterdam. lt's trymg tO make an another jOb in the security business. unsustainable situation bette r. The men and women—many ofAA7hom are lsrael captured the West Bank' East Jerusalem immigrants and working-class lsraelis WhO and the Gaza Stnp—which palestinians claim for curityjobs•whcd 0 ork P A G E 0 N E / I S R A E L 十 UNWELCOME HOST: Many residents of the occupried terri- tories are angry at the Palestinian Authority fO 「 working closely with 「 a 可 on security issues there. NEWSWEEK 31 MAY05. 2017

Karachi would be a "very hard ” place for the U. S. to conduct the kind of commando raid that got bin Laden on May 2 , 2011 , Riedel says. The heavily policed city, the site 0f a maJ0r nuclear complex, alSO hosts pakistani naval and air bases, where forces could quickly be scrambled tO mtercept American raiders. plus, bin Laden, al-Zawahiri's late protege, remalns a popular figure among Karachi's millions 0f poor, devout Muslims, who could well emerge from their homes and shops tO pin down the Americans. "lfhe was in someplace along the border with Afghanistan , I think the te mptation would be enormous tO go after him, ” says Riedel, whO now heads the Brooking lnstitution's lntelligence prOJect in Washington, D. C. "But in Karachi, that would be stunning and ve Ⅳ diffcult. ln the first week of January 2016 , the Obama administration went after al-Zawahiri with a drone strike in Pakistan s remote Shawal Valley, which abuts the Afghan border in a Federally Administered Tribal Area, multiple sources tell Ⅳ硼フ . But he survived, says a senior mili- tant leader in the regon, who, like all Pakistani sources, demanded anonymity in order tO discuss politically sensitive lssues. "The drone hit next tO the room where Dr. Zawahiri was staymg, the man tells Ⅳビル醜 . "The shared wall collapsed, and debris 仕 om the explosion showered on him and broke his glasses, but luckily he was safe. The man adds that "four ofzawahin's security One of the Taliban s former ministers adds that al-Zawahiri and Al-Qaeda are "no longer wel- come areas controlled by his group because it's engaged in peace negotiations with the Afghan government and doesn t want tO be seen as threat tO world peace. CIosed out of the tribal areas, al-Zawahiri was moved tO Karachi under direction Of the black leg,"' the Afghan Taliban's code name for the ISI, according to the group leader who spoke with N ビルた . And he may well have taken aI-AdeI, indicted in the し S. in connection with the 1998 bombing 0f the U. S. Embassy in Nai- robi, Kenya, with him. A former top Pakistani offlcial whO maintains close tles with the lslamabad government would confirm only that al-Zawahiri is 。 in a large paki- stam city. Karachl makes sense as a sanctuary, he tells N ル 5 ルた , given its widespread sympa- thies for militant lslam, congested 19th-century stre ets and large Pakistani military pre se nce. But he says he was 100 percent sure that bin P A G E 0 N E / AL - Q AE D A guards were killed on the spot, and one was injured but died later. '' He says al-zawahiri had "left the targeted room tO sleep just 10 minutes ahead Of the missile that hit that room. (The CIA declines tO C01 れ 1 れ ent on drone strikes. ) The Al-Qaeda leader had been moving about the Fe derally Admin- istered Tribal Areas since at least 2005 , according tO an upcoming bOOk, The E. な The S 〃ⅲれ g 加豆 S 知ヴ 0 川 4 わん ad 明 4 〃イ用記 4 ⅲ FI んら by longtime British inve stiga- tive reporters Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy. Married to a local Pashtun girl, [al-Zawahiri] had been given a new home, a large mud-brick com- oun&upånthehills"inDamad01a the write. ln July 2015 , al-Zawahiri was in the Shawal Val- ley, often in the company 0fone ofhis three W1ves nd his top assistant, Saifal-Adel, a former bomb expert and colonel in the Egyptian special forces, according to the militant le ade r who talke d with Ⅳビルルた . Now 66 and frail, aI-Zawahiri has survived severalWdrone attacks since 2001 , an Afghan Taliban leader says, but is worried and NEWSWEEK 15 MAY05, 2017 adabout the-overallsituationoflslamic group amz a turn e d out tO b e ambitious : ln a ⅲ CO I. APSED, AND DEBRIS M THE EXPLOSION WERED ON HIM AND KE HIS GLASSES. ” Laden s 26-year-old son, Hamza, a nsing power in Al-Qaeda, is also in the country under ISI pro- tection. (Abid Saeed, spokesman for the Pakistani Embass in Washin on, D. C., called the allega- tions "part Ofa ViCious media campaign" and said "the achievements Of Pakistan against Al-Qaeda re unp arallele & and proven. り Hamza, the llth son ofthe Al-Qaeda founder, emerged last year as the 00e1 れ lr , or commander, 0f the group, but analysts believe he was groomed by the elderly, abrasive al-Zaw tO be the inspiring face Of the organization. BR SH FR

an early March mormng on Washington, D. C. 's K Street—the boulevard synonymous with political influence the way New York's Fifth Avenue is with high- end shopping or the Champs-Elysé e s with love. L0bbyists and lawyers, bure aucrats and bankers gath- ered for a conference on America's infrastructure nightmare. And many 0f them were ln a rut so deep not even the nifty model ofsleek subway cars next tO the coffee and croissants could lighten their mood. They all knew President Donald Trump has been promising a massive plan tO rebuild America's infra- structure since the day he descended that Trump Tower escalator ln 2015 and announced his unlikely bid for the White House. And they all knew that no plan has yet been announced. And that makes many people antsy, even angry. Those wh0 live 0 代 govern- ment largesse are eager for his rhetoric tO turn 1ntO a golden shower ofdollars. And those millions 0fAmer- icans stuck in traffc (the average driver is Jammed up 43 hours a year) or rolling their eyes at the (sad!) state of New York City 's LaGuardia A1rport—both former Vice President Joe Biden and Trump have likened it tO a Third World country—want some one (anyone ! ) tO d0 something (anything ! ) to fix this damn me ss. WhiIe shoveling down NuteIIa crepes and green- power smoothies, plenty 0fthe experts at that power event were alSO chewing on grave concerns about what the president will propose to, as he promised, completely fix Amenca's infrastructure. ” Ob ama Transportation Se cretary Ray LaH00d says America one big pothole " and laments that raising the gas tax or taking Other reasonable measures tO fix the coun- try s transportation rat ne st are 0 代 the table. S enator SheIdon Whitehouse , a Democrat from Rhode lsland, 他 ars Trump's plan could turn into a boondoggle for private lnvestors. Even conservative Texas Republi- can Repre sentative Blake Farenth01d is doubtful that the rosy scenarios for getting a few public dollars and using them tO entice the pnvate sector tO bulld tons Of roads will work. "That's going to be tough," he says. Later that morning, a few blocks away at the White House, the president metwith his infrastructure team, N E W S W E E K 42 including Secretary of Transportation Elaine Ch ao, and top advisers and the New York billionaires Trump tapped t0 head a kind 0f business advisory board for his infrastructure push: Richard Le Frak, whos e fam- ily's company is a behemoth 0f New York real estate, and Steven R0th, one of G0tham's largest realtors. The president told the group he wants t0 see money going t0 roads and bridges and sewer repair right away, and he doesn t want states tO screw around with regulatory delays. But anyone hoping for actual, you know, was played for a sucker. Trump didn't present his plan that day, or any day since. We have only that glint of an ide a he flicke d at in his joint address t0 Congress ⅲ March, when he called for a $ 1 trillion investment in infrastructure. Buthe le 代 it unclear how much 0f that would be direct govern- ment spending on roads and bridges and the like, and hOW much would be tax breaks tO induce private com- panie s t0 build such things. Adding t0 the confusion, a couple ofweeks later, when the president tossed his ー wish-list budget t0 Congress—the one that got all that attention for hiking defense spending and bringing down the curtain on the National Endowment for the Arts—there was no $ 1 trillion line item for roads and bridges. ln fact, his proposed budget had money for infrastructure than is currently being spent, and programs such as Community Development Block Grants, or CDBGs, were cut back significantly. Trump and administration offcials keep saymg a big infrastructure plan is coming, perhaps even tacked on t0 another bill—"l may put it in with some- thing else because it's a very popular thing," he told The N どル物ⅸ襯 in early April. But so far, everyone is just guessing. House Minority Leader Nancy pelosi keeps saymg, 'Where's the bill?" and Republicans don't seem tO know much more than she does. The House s top member on infrastructure issue s, Bill Shuster, a Pennsylvania RepubIican who chairs the transportatlon committee, thinks Trump might tuck his plan intO a must-pass reauthorization Of funding forthe Federal AuationAdministration later this year. Some think it could get stuffed into a big tax reform proposal, but that seems improbable since many Democrats vow to block any package until Trump releases his returns. And that seems about as likely as him swapping Mar-a-Lago for a sixth-floor walk-up. For a president W1th high negatives, a masslve infra- structure intervention has the unusual appeal Ofbe ing popular with everybody. (During the presidential pri- maries, b0th Trump and Bernie Sanders often cited the high- quality road s and airports in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates or lnchon, South Korea, while b emoaning the shabby state Of Ame rica's infrastruc- ture. ) P011s show that a huge percentage ofAmericans favor spending more on infrastructure, WhiCh iS no surpnse in a country where roads are potted, sewer pipes leak, bridges buckle and dams burst. ln March, M A Y 0 5 , 2 017