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“The Highwaymen” Revisited
Ten years later, P3s’ fate uncertain under Trump
By Steve Brawner Since then, momentum has slowed, But the administration’s posi-
Contributing Writer but not stopped. They’re still an option tion on public-private partnerships
for cash-strapped governments. But in is unclear. The sources for Trump’s
A decade ago, a story in Mother recent days, President Donald Trump’s remarks were Democratic congressmen
Jones magazine headlined “The administration has moved from who attended the meeting. According to
Highwaymen,” and reprinted in embracing P3s to questioning them. the Washington Post, Rep. Brian Higgins
Arkansas Trucking Report, anticipated Trump made headlines in (D-N.Y.), said Trump “dismissed it
the growth of privately managed high- September during a meeting with categorically and said it doesn’t work.”
ways. The story was published after Republicans and Democrats on the But another Democrat at the meeting,
the leasing of the Indiana Toll Road House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. John Larson of Connecticut, said
in 2006, when it appeared that such when he reportedly said public-private he didn’t believe Trump was rejecting all
public-private partnerships, or P3s, were partnerships don’t work with infra- public-private partnerships, according
on the rise. structure construction. to Bloomberg News.
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