President Donald Trump called on Congress to advance a $1.5 trillion bill to "rebuild our crumbling infrastructure" in his first official State of the Union speech on Tuesday. Trump's remarks, while still a ways off from the level of detail to be expected from a formal written plan, offered the clearest picture yet from the president himself on his vision for an American infrastructure renovation. To fund the bill and "permanently" improve the deficit, Trump said all federal appropriations should be "leveraged by partnering with State and local governments and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector ... (full story)