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Big-ticket infrastructure projects around the country need a boost from the federal government, more than 30 mayors meeting in Washington, D.C., last week told congressional leaders and Trump administration officials.

An influential conservative group backed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is questioning a plan to spend $1 trillion on the nation’s infrastructure and warning that one of President Trump’s signature policy initiatives could become a “spending boondoggle.”

WASHINGTON — Addressing Congress for the first time, President Trump was short on specifics when he called for passage of a $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan that he suggested would modernize the country’s transportation network.

A toolkit of options for financing big-ticket infrastructure projects is required to compensate for lack of federal funding, governors noted in a policy outline for 2017.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio House on March 2 overwhelmingly supported a $7.8 billion, two-year transportation and public safety budget that would experiment with varying speed limits to regulate traffic flow on selected highways.

In his first address before Congress, President Trump announced his intention to ask Congress to back an infrastructure plan that would generate a $1 trillion to rebuild roads and bridges. 

WASHINGTON — Proposals designed to increase funding for infrastructure projects could bring together most governors and the Trump administration, Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) said Feb. 24.

Investors who bet Donald Trump would quickly make good on his pledge to fix the nation’s highways and bridges are being taken for a road-trip in financial markets.