Speaker Ryan offers picture of public-private spending in Trump’s infrastructure plan

President-elect Donald Trump’s massive infrastructure package should have $40 of private-sector spending for every $1 of public spending, according to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). “A great agency…has public-private partnerships. For every one dollar of federal dollars, there's $40 of private sector spending,” Speaker Ryan said. “We want to leverage as much private-sector dollars as possible to maximize the fixing of our infrastructure.” It’s perhaps the clearest picture to date of whether — and how much — direct federal funding for transportation upgrades may be included in Trump’s promised $1 trillion infrastructure bill. There has been mounting concern, particularly among Democrats and rural Republicans, that relying on private financing would only attract projects that can recoup investment costs through tolls or user fees.