We used to have the greatest infrastructure anywhere in the world, and today, we are like a third-world country. Our infrastructure will again be the best in the world. We will create millions of new jobs and make millions of American dreams come true. We will rebuild our country with American workers, American iron, American aluminum, American steel. No longer will we allow the infrastructure of our magnificent country to crumble and decay, while protecting the environment we will build gleaming new roads, bridges, railways, waterways, tunnels and highways. They lobby congress, they lobby state government, city governments to make it very difficult so that you have to hire consultants and that you have to take years and pay them a fortune, so we’re streamlining the process, and we won’t be having so much of that anymore. All of the buildings I built in Manhattan and many other places, and I will tell you that the consultants are rich people. I had to get permits for this building and many of the buildings I built. Now, I knew the process very well – probably better than anybody. No longer will we accept a broken system that benefits consultants and lobbyists at the expense of hard working Americans. No longer will we tolerate one job killing delay after another. We’re going to get infrastructure built quickly, inexpensively, relatively speaking and the permitting process will go very, very quickly. It also holds agencies accountable if they fail to streamline their review process, so each agency is accountable. So my Executive Order also requires agencies to work together efficiently by requiring one lead agency for each major infrastructure project. Would anybody like it from the media? Would anybody like that long, beautiful chart, you can have it. So this is – maybe this one will say, let’s throw the other one away. This will be less than two years for a highway, so it’s going to be quick, it’s going to be a very streamlined process, and by the way, if it doesn’t meet environmental safeguards, we are not going to approve it – very simple. This is going to happen quickly, that’s what I’m signing today. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars, but it took 17 years to get it approved and many, many, many, many pages of environmental impact studies. I could have built it for $4 million, $5 million without the permitting process. I have seen a highway recently in a certain state – I won’t mention it’s name, it is 17 years. But that can go out to about 20 years to get something approved. So that can go out to about 20 years, this shows about ten. Elaine, you see that? So this is what it takes, permitting process flow chart. This is what it takes to get something approved today. I think I’m going to show it to the media – both real and fake media by the way.
Denying our people much needed investments in their community, and I just want to show you this, because it was just shown to me. That’s why I just signed a new Executive Order to dramatically reform the nation’s badly broken infrastructure permitting process. My administration is working every day to deliver the world class infrastructure that our people deserve and frankly our country deserves.
We’ve just had a great set of briefings upstairs on our infrastructure agenda. Thank you all for doing a really incredible and creative job on what we’re going to be discussing today, which is infrastructure.
I want to thank all of our distinguished guests who are with us today, including the members of our cabinet: Treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin and OMB Director Mick Mulvaney and the Transportation Secretary who is doing a fabulous job, Elaine Chao. Great to be back in New York with all of our friends and some great friends outside the building, I must tell you. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hello, everybody. 15 and the Q&A with the media that followed. The following is a transcript of President Donald Trump’s remarks at a news conference on infrastructure at Trump Tower on Aug.
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