America needs a massive infrastructure bill. But we won't get one.

Both parties will fail on infrastructure in 2018. You can count on it.

Road work in San Francisco.
(Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The prospect of a trillion-dollar infrastructure spending bill is an appealing one for those of us who have sat stalled for hours in a train car somewhere between Providence and Boston, watched rain leak through the ceiling of a major metropolitan airport, or driven on an interstate that looked like it belonged in a Mad Max set, which is to say, roughly 100 percent of the voting-age American population.

What a golden opportunity for pragmatic statesmen of both parties to come together with President Trump and get something done on behalf of the American people.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.