INFRASTRUCTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday [1-31-19] that will push for federal dollars spent on infrastructure projects to be put toward American companies and bolster workers his top trade adviser described as ‘blue-collar Trump people’ the administration has focused on helping. That description, given to reporters by Peter Navarro, the White House trade adviser, was a small but telling glimpse at how the administration has sought to carry out the president’s ‘America First’ policy. The executive order is meant to be an economic shot in the arm for workers held up as symbols of the president’s tough-on-trade stance, even as some have faced shaky economic prospects over the administration’s decisions to impose high tariffs on imported goods and to start several global disputes, including a damaging trade war with China.”
–Katie Rogers, “President Signs Order to Help U.S. Manufacturers and ‘Trump People’,” The New York Times online, January 31, 2019