President Trump's newly wished-for $4.8 trillion budget includes $1 trillion for infrastructure spread out over 10 years according to the analysis by the American Concrete Institute. Rural infrastructure would receive $25 billion of that amount and $250 million would be set aside to restore the Everglades. In addition, the plan calls to keep the Highway Trust Fund intact.

 

However, the budget proposes cuts to major programs including a 26 percent pullback from the EPA and in order to pare the deficit, which is expected to top $1 trillion in 2020, the first time it has gotten that high since 2012, Trump's administration seeks to cut $4.4 trillion over a decade.

As for the outlay for the Everglades, it would top the money set aside for its restoration in the current budget by $50 million. The Miami Herald is reporting that it was unknown what specific projects would receive funding but there have been recent efforts, "to create a massive reservoir to clean the polluted water that flows from Lake Okeechobee following outbreaks of toxic algae that have fouled estuaries and coasts in recent summers."