Wonkbook: Trump keeps pretending his infrastructure plan is real

By Matt O'Brien President Trump's "$1 trillion infrastructu...   The latest economic and domestic policy from Wonkblog   Want the inside skinny on President Trump's economic team, and what will happen to Dodd-Frank and tax reform on Capitol Hill? Tory Newmyer has you covered with our newest newsletter, The Finance 202. SIGN UP >> (Alex Wong/Getty Images) By Matt O'Brien President Trump's "$1 trillion infrastructure plan" isn't $1 trillion and it isn't a plan. It's a $200 billion plan to have a plan that hasn't advanced beyond that stage for six months now. The administration, though, has decided that this is "infrastructure week," so this bare outline of an actual proposal is getting touted as if it's something that required more than five minutes of thought. Which is to say that it's not that different from the rest of Trump's agenda: bullet points that seem more appropriate for a tweet than for anything else. Now, the funny thing is how long it's taken the administration to come up with even this minimal level of detail and how much infighting it caused within Trump's often-fractious White House. Read the rest on Wonkblog. Chart of the day After a revolt by GOP lawmakers in Kansas against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's tax policies, the poor are stil paying more for what he called a "real-live experiment" in red-state policy. Max Ehrenfreund has more. ADVERTISEMENT   Top policy tweets The Great Kansas Tax Cut Experiment is over. What are the takeaway lessons? https://t.co/5dfChpYUcG — James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) June 9, 2017 Norquist is completely immune to evidence that cutting taxes for the rich doesn't grow the economy and does lead to revenue shortfalls. https://t.co/E2p16vUpBs — Betsey Stevenson (@BetseyStevenson) June 9, 2017 Great piece from @rortybomb on GOP's efforts to gut Dodd-Frank https://t.co/iASPHCfB71 — Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 9, 2017 FEINSTEIN comes out pushing hard for 702 spying reforms, including codification of ending "about" collection and keeping the sunset pic.twitter.com/jPZTdyRH2I — Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) June 9, 2017 Trump is ignoring opioids, factory jobs -- and every other real problem he promised to solve: https://t.co/I74LjJEicD — Jim Tankersley (@jimtankersley) June 9, 2017 Most Recent Posts from Wonkblog In a setback for unions, Labor Department moves to revoke Obama-era ‘persuader rule’ The Labor Department announced Thursday night it was taking steps to reverse an Obama-era rule requiring companies disclose their initial contacts with outside consultants on how to respond to unionizing efforts. By Juliet Eilperin  •  Read more »   House passes sweeping legislation to roll back banking rules The House adopted the bill along party lines, but its fate in the Senate is precarious. By Renae Merle  •  Read more »   Larry Summers: Elite universities are largely failing to meet the challenges of the Trump era Something has gone badly wrong when the chancellor of the largest state university system is pushing faculty attendance at seminars where faculty are trained that it is wrong and even racist to say that "America is a land of opportunity. " By Lawrence H. Summers  •  Read more »   Smoke weed to relax? You may want to reconsider. Nearly 4 in 10 marijuana smokers say they do so to relax, but new research says it may just make their anxiety worse. By Christopher Ingraham  •  Read more »   The federal government is warning police about “Smoochy Woochy Poochy” The federal government wants to help police know the difference between "booty juice" and "smoochy woochy poochy." Do you? By Christopher Ingraham  •  Read more » Why Americans pay more for sugar The dispute pits some of America's largest food companies against one of its most powerful agricultural lobbies -- and against the Trump administration itself By Caitlin Dewey  •  Read more »   Trump officials quietly scrap Obama-era plan to protect fast food workers The Department of Labor just gave us a clue as to what it thinks of franchises. By Danielle Paquette  •  Read more »   Here's how much you would need to afford rent in your state Nowhere in America can a full-time minimum wage worker afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment. By Tracy Jan  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Recommended for you   The Finance 202 Your daily guide to where Wall Street meets Washington. Sign Up »         Share Wonkbook:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for a Wonkblog newsletter. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071