A broad coalition representing a vast cross-section of our economy is working together to deliver a joint sign-on letter urging President Trump to strengthen our nation’s economy and improve America’s competitiveness through significant investment in our nation’s infrastructure.

President Trump needs to know that our nation’s infrastructure systems are insufficient to support American competitiveness and we can no longer afford to underinvest in the infrastructure that Americans rely on in our daily lives.

We ask that your organization consider signing on to this important letter to President Trump urging him to act on a balanced infrastructure plan that will lift our nation’s economy and improve our transportation network.

This letter is open to all business and trade associations, state and local chambers and allied organizations.

The deadline for signatures is Monday, January 30, 2017 by 6:00pm EDT. Please add your organization’s name today!

Thank you in advance for your support.

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Letter to President Trump on the Need for Infrastructure Investment

February XX, 2017

The Honorable Donald Trump
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Trump:

Congratulations on your inauguration as the 45th President of the United States of America, and thank you for your commitment to rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure. As a broad coalition representing a vast cross section of our economy, we all agree that our nation’s infrastructure systems are insufficient to support American competitiveness. New investment is required to improve upon the stopgap efforts of the last decade. We believe your leadership is necessary to pass a balanced infrastructure investment plan that will lift our nation’s economy and improve our transportation network.

We can no longer afford to underinvest in the infrastructure that Americans rely on in our daily lives. Any responsible proposal must provide improvements to all types of infrastructure throughout the country and address large important projects that make our businesses more competitive by reducing shipping, commuting, water and energy costs. At the same time, your administration and Congress must restore solvency to the Highway Trust Fund to ensure that the federal government can maintain a state of the art infrastructure system. This will require a commitment to a long-term, reliable, dedicated, user-based revenue source for the Highway Trust Fund and the effective surface transportation programs it supports.

While recent laws authorizing federal highway and surface transportation programs have greatly improved the effectiveness and efficiency of these programs, the long-run solvency of the Highway Trust Fund has been left unresolved. Failure to resolve the issues facing the trust fund prior to the expiration of the current law in 2020 will require you to make a decision to either pass additional short-term stopgap measures or find a $110 billion off-set to pass a long-term bill that will at best maintain current funding levels that do not meet our transportation infrastructure needs. Absent long-term stability for the Highway Trust Fund, many projects critical to the efficient movement of people and goods have the real potential to be backlogged or never built. Further, mounting deferred maintenance could cause current infrastructure to fall into an even greater state of disrepair.

An infrastructure initiative led by your administration is a generational opportunity to end the cycle of uncertainty that has plagued America’s infrastructure network and usher in a new era of stability and improvements we so desperately need. However, this will take leadership and bold, innovative solutions. It is critical that your infrastructure plan not only encourages greater participation from the private sector in infrastructure projects and reduces needless red tape, but also provides real revenue for the Highway Trust Fund that will help the users and beneficiaries of America’s transportation and freight network. Private financing, while important and needed, cannot replace the role of public funding and federal leadership.

Again, thank you for your commitment to strengthening our nation’s economy and improving America’s competitiveness through significant investment in our nation’s infrastructure. We look forward to working with you to achieve our shared goals.

Sincerely,

CC: The U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate

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