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President Donald Trump is better placed than any of his potential opponents to broker compromises. He should propose deals, seize the moral high ground, and lead America back to success.

Nancy Pelosi, House Minority leader and Democrat speakership candidate, flipped her second Democrat rebel on Wednesday from being opposed to her candidacy to retake the speaker’s gavel to supporting her.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) laid out the agenda for the incoming Democratic House majority, which includes improving Obamacare, infrastructure spending, stronger ethics rules, and providing “a constitutional check on the Trump administration.” Transcript as Follows:

The new president of the Maldives, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, campaigned on criticism of his predecessor’s appetite for Chinese loans and investment. Solih signaled a strong desire to realign his country toward India and seek help from the India-U.S. alliance to relieve the burden of Chinese debt.

The First Step Act could be the beginning of a joint effort to address challenges that have ready solutions but that, because of their political difficulty, need bipartisan support to pass.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that America should be building roads and bridges in America, not Afghanistan.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered a foreign policy speech on Thursday that rolled out a $2 billion infrastructure bank that will loan money for telecommunications, energy, water, and transportation projects to Pacific nations.

South Korea’s Yonhap News on Monday noticed North Korea’s state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun lavishing extraordinary praise on China’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative, an international infrastructure program China has invested a great deal of pride and money in.

The government of South Africa announced on Friday that President Cyril Ramaphosa secured another $10 billion in Chinese loans during his trip to Beijing last week, bring South Africa’s total economic stimulus and infrastructure financing from China up to $25 billion.

China’s debt colonization of Africa is well underway, as one African nation after another takes out gigantic loans from Chinese banks to build infrastructure projects that appear financially unsustainable. Kenya is one of the most heavily indebted countries, but President Uhuru Kenyatta is on his way to Beijing for a summit at which he will reaffirm his commitment to the Belt and Road initiative.

President Trump is readying a “Buy American” executive order that would favor American companies and U.S.-made materials for government infrastructure projects.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Dan Kildee (D-MI) discussed infrastructure and the Flint water crisis and said, “A decade after the Great Recession, many of America’s cities and towns have not recovered and face population loss, cuts to basic

Chinese companies are hard at work on building a road through the mountains to connect Montenegro’s port city of Bar with Serbia. The project is incredibly expensive, leaving Montenegro struggling to pay off titanic debt to Chinese financiers. Critics call it another example of Chinese debt imperialism: the slow-motion conquest of smaller countries through the “Belt and Road” infrastructure initiative by suckering them into taking loans from Beijing they will never be able to repay.

New England “had to import LNG [Liquified Natural Gas] from Russia because we didn’t have infrastructure going through places like New York.”

Soon after President Donald Trump concluded his Tuesday summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Chinese media predicted a new golden age of prosperity for Pyongyang and urged it to join China’s massive “Belt and Road” infrastructure project.

China’s state-run Global Times expressed delight on Sunday with Japan’s growing participation in the “Belt and Road” infrastructure project, through which China hopes to extend economic and political influence from Asia through the Middle East and Europe. The editorial signaled that if the Japanese play ball with Belt and Road, Beijing might even stop referring to them as history’s greatest monsters.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao spoke at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” event on Friday, telling the audience how those traditional values of faith and freedom inspired her family to move “across the world to America” when she was just eight years old.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working on an infrastructure package to help America’s poorest communities, Breitbart News has learned.

“Before I used to say, ‘You are going to have a friend,’ but now I have proven you have got a friend in the White House,” Trump said to a crowd of about 400 union workers and supporters at the Richfield union training facility.

“Even look at Roseanne, I called her yesterday, look at her ratings!” Trump said.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) criticized President Trump’s infrastructure plan, and stated that the plan has the “diabolical” plank of “Selling off America’s infrastructure to Wall Street middlemen who gleefully plan to charge us tolls forevermore.”

The U.S. News & World Report has named California the worst state for “quality of life,” largely due to the high cost of living.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the Senate’s number two Republican, said in an interview on Tuesday that he does not know if Congress can pass President Donald Trump’s promised infrastructure package.

Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, the recently elected Communist prime minister of Nepal, said in his first official interview on Monday that he wants to restart a Chinese-led hydroelectric project valued at $2.5 billion as part of a strategy to realign his country away from India and toward China.

A pathway forward on infrastructure for President Donald Trump and Congress has emerged via a new bipartisan minority-owned public affairs firm, as members of both parties are actively working to fund an expansive rebuilding effort in America’s interior.

Nobody seems to agree on how much the federal government should actually spend, nor do folks agree on how much the deficit-ridden feds can actually pay for any new infrastructure.

The Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday that Australia, India, Japan, and the United States are considering an alliance to counter China’s growing influence – in particular, the huge “Belt and Road” trade project undertaken by China.

President Donald Trump unveiled his $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan on Monday at the White House, criticizing the amount of money wasted in the Middle East before he was presdient.

President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan to be released on Monday should shorten permitting processes, invest in rural infrastructure, and train workers for the jobs produced in the process of improving America’s infrastructure.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) stated that he expects President Trump’s infrastructure plan to reduce the federal role in infrastructure to pre-Eisenhower level and encourage state and local governments “to sell

President Donald Trump credited the American spirit and work ethic for building the nation’s infrastructure in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday and called on Congress to craft legislation to modernize it.

Trump offered few details Tuesday about his much-touted plans to expand infrastructure.

President Donald Trump called for massive new spending on infrastructure in his State of the Union address Monday.

During the State of the Union on Tuesday, President Trump called on Congress to come up with a bill with at least $1.5 trillion worth of investment in new infrastructure. Trump said, “I am asking both parties to come together

A poll revealed that business leaders overwhelmingly approve of President Trump’s tax reform bill and infrastructure package.

Cape Town, South Africa, a city of four million people, will run out of water on April 12, in what local officials are calling “Day Zero.”