THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

May 21,2019

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi

Speaker

United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 205l5

The Honorable Charles Schumer
Minority Leader

United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Madam Speaker and Minority Leader Schumer:

I look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to the White House tomorrow to continue
our constructive discussion on investing in our Nation?s infrastructure.

Before we get to infrastructure, it is my strong view that Congress should ?rst pass the important
and popular USMCA trade deal. This path-breaking deal, already agreed to by the governments
of Canada and Mexico, will boost employment growth and create millions of high wage jobs. It
will bene?t farmers, manufacturing workers, unions, and businesses throughout our great nation.
It will replace the jobvkilling NAFTA, one of the worst trade deals ever entered into by our
Nation.

Once Congress has passed USMCA, we should turn our attention to a bipartisan infrastructure
package. During our ?rst meeting, we agreed that an infrastructure package should modernize
our Nation?s surface transportation systems. mass transit, airports, ports, and waterways. It
should improve local wastewater facilities and local household water systems. It should invest in
rural broadband and industries of the ?iture, such as advanced manufacturing and arti?cial
intelligence. There were also areas where we diverged, but the Administration believes that
energy permitting reforms and energy-related infrastructure investments are important priorities.

The highway trust fund is essentially bankrupt and needs to be reauthorized by September 2020.
Hence, we believe that reauthorization is the best vehicle to achieve our goals.

It would be helpful if you me to tomorrow's meeting with your infrastructure priorities and
speci?cs regarding how much funding you would dedicate to each. Your caucus has expressed a

wide-range of priorities, and it is unclear which ones have your support. I had hoped that we
could have worked out these priorities following our last meeting, but you cancelled a scheduled
meeting of our teams, preventing them from advancing our discussions. Nevertheless, I remain
committed to passing an infrastructure bill.

I am pleased that you have indicated that infrastructure is a bipartisan Congressional priority and
that there are signi?cant majorities in both the House and Senate to take action on the issue.
There is no doubt that the American pe0ple want us to rebuild our infrastructure to improve the
quality of life for all Americans. It is now time for us to follow the wishes of the American
people and work together to pass a big and bold infrastructure bill.

cerel

  

Donald J. Trump