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Republican urges Trump to ‘jump start’ infrastructure push

Democrats in Congress say they want to do it. President Donald Trump says he wants it, too.But if a major transportation bill is going to happen this year, the ranking Republican on the House committee that would write it says Trump needs to get his own party on board, and that starts with State of the Union speech.The speech is scheduled for Jan. 29, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has asked the president to delay it because of the partial government shutdown.“If the president will make it a priority or mention it in his State of the Union, that’s going to jump start it,” said Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., the new ranking member on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “He has to get behind it for this thing to become a reality.”Trump has talked about infrastructure since the 2016 campaign, and a year ago called on Congress in his first State of the Union speech “to produce a bill that generates at least $1.5 trillion for new infrastructure investment that our country so desperately needs.”