Sen. Amy Klobuchar said that while she just announced a trillion dollar infrastructure plan, which she called her 'top budget priority,' that doesn't mean that infrastructure is a priority over health care, adding, 'We can do two things at once.'
"It is not infrastructure over health care. We can do two things at once," the senator from Minnesota told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl on "This Week" Sunday, adding that she believes "infrastructure is an economic need."
She currently serves on the Senate’s Commerce and Transportation Committee and has proposed a series of tax reforms to help pay for the plan, including raising the corporate tax rate from 21 to 25 percent. The rate was slashed from 35 percent to 21 percent as a result of Trump during his 2016 campaign frequently promised an infrastructure plan on a similar scale and, in an infrastructure proposal released last year by the White House, the administration called forthat they said will “stimulate $1.5 trillion in new investment in infrastructure.”
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