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“The infrastructure plan continues to be a vague promise on the horizon, but the administration’s budget proposal is coming up in the next two weeks and it represents an immediate opportunity to invest in infrastructure and communities. The president’s last budget proposed draconian cuts in funding for infrastructure, affordable housing and other programs that would have devastated communities large and small. We hope that the upcoming budget reverses course and moves in the direction of the president’s rhetoric from last night—investing in America’s towns, cities and neighborhoods. It does little good to pour new money into new infrastructure while taking away the critical housing, economic development, transit and other funding sources for communities that currently sustain economic development efforts at the local level.

“We’re eager to work with the administration and with Congress to shape an infrastructure plan that could bring real prosperity to communities of all sizes, but we need more than just sweeping rhetoric. It must be matched by action. With the president’s budget proposal, we’ll see if it is.”