Ahead of a meeting next week with party leaders, the president said he fears they want to portray him as favoring a tax increase.
By John Wagner John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow May 17 at 2:47 PM President Trump in a new interview accused Democrats of playing “a bit of game” on reaching an infrastructure deal, saying he fears they will portray him as favoring a tax increase to pay for major investments in roads, rail, airports and other projects.
“But I also think we’re being played by the Democrats a little bit,” Trump said. “You know, I think what they want me to do is say, ‘Well what we’ll do is raise taxes,’ and we’ll do this and this and this, and then they’ll have a news conference, [where they’ll say] ‘See, Trump wants to raise taxes.’ So it’s a little bit of a game.”
“If Mick Mulvaney said that, then he has no right to say that,” Trump said in the Fox interview. “He tells me he didn’t say that, and he didn’t mean it. He said it’s going to be hard to finance.”According to a December analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, raising fuel tax rates by 35 cents and pegging them to rise with inflation would generate only about a quarter of the necessary revenue over 10 years. Since 1993, the rates have remained at 18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline and 24.
Trump, who campaigned on addressing the nation’s aging infrastructure, unveiled a plan last year focused on public-private partnerships that received a cool reception from members of both parties, who questioned the viability of relying on states, localities and the private sector to cover the bulk of its $1.5 trillion cost.
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