Why did Trump kill flood safety plans for infrastructure? Hurricane Harvey should make him reconsider
“There’s obviously legitimate things to be done to speed up infrastructure, but saying that we’re not going to pay attention to flood risks is not the way to do it,” Eli Lehrer, president of the libertarian think tank R Street Institute, told The Huffington Post. “And while it’s possible more infrastructure will be built… it is also quite likely that a lot of what is built will be destroyed in relatively short order. So this does no good for anybody.”
