As the American Society for Engineers (ASCE) explained last week, before leaving for their August recess, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee passed a five-year surface transportation bill that set a historically-high […] Read More
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Based on comments from members of Congress and the Trump administration over the last week, it is clear that momentum is building toward a positive congressional vote on the United States, Mexico, Canada Agreement (USMCA), […] Read More
Top economic officials from the United States and China are expected to resume trade talks early next month. In advance of those discussions, both nations last week announced some concessions. On Twitter last Wednesday, President […] Read More
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced last week that the Trump administration has rolled back the agency’s 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) regulation, issued under the previous presidential administration. The […] Read More
New data and analysis suggest that companies are having an increasingly hard time finding workers, and that this problem might be affecting economic and employment growth. The U.S. government announced last week that there were […] Read More