Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, April 13, 2017.
Rahm returns to Washington to discuss infrastructure, meet with DeVos
Mayor Rahm Emanuel returned to his old stomping grounds in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to discuss infrastructure at a Wall Street Journal event and meet with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. In order to improve infrastructure, President Donald Trump will have to spend federal money and not rely on tax credits, Emanuel said at the WSJ event.”We didn’t build up Afghanistan or Iraq on tax credits. We did not. We did it with U.S. dollars,” the mayor said. “When we built schools and roads in Iraq, we didn’t do it on tax credits.” Emanuel then met with DeVos to discuss education in the Chicago. “I applaud the Mayor for Chicago’s rising high school graduation rates and commitment to providing more students new opportunities through dual enrollment programs,” DeVos said in a statement after their meeting. [Huffington Post] [U.S. Department of Education statement]
