Legislative agenda stalled, Trump revives infrastructure plans

As Obamacare repeal and tax reform stall on Capitol Hill, the White House has decided that maybe President Trump can launch a nationwide push to repair roads, bridges, ports and tracks this year after all.

"Infrastructure, the president has said all along, he believes it will be a bipartisan exercise, and it's one that we will be looking to partner with them on," Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, told reporters on Monday evening.

Short said the White House did not yet know whether the infrastructure overhaul would take the form of a single bill or if it would be included in different pieces of legislation.

"We would hope that we would tackle it this calendar year," he said of the timeline for an infrastructure package.

The White House had kicked off "Infrastructure Week" earlier Monday with a proposal to privatize the country's air traffic control system, about which Democrats are not enthusiastic.