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Trump administration prioritizes 50 infrastructure projects valued at $137.5 billion

Updated Jan 29, 2017

A preliminary list of the Trump administrations priority infrastructure projects, obtained by the Kansas City Star and The News Tribune, outlines 50 projects valued at $137.5 billion.

The document, available here, indicates these projects would be funded equally by private and public investment and would directly create 193, 350 job years and indirectly create 241,700 job years.

The projects include, in order as listed in the document:

Gateway Program

“Reconstruction of critical, high-risk Northeast Corridor rail infrastructure between Newark and New York City.”

Cost: $12 billion

Jobs: 15,000 direct, 19,000 indirect