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'Math Just Doesn't Work' With Trump's Infrastructure Plan, Former Transportation Secretary Says

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Truck and automobile traffic mix on Interstate 5, headed north through Fife, Wash., in August 2016. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
Truck and automobile traffic mix on Interstate 5, headed north through Fife, Wash., in August 2016. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

President Trump called for $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending in his State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Ray LaHood (@RayLaHood), who was secretary of transportation under President Obama from 2009 to 2013, about the state of infrastructure and Trump's plan.

This segment aired on January 31, 2018.

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