Trump: ‘This Over-Regulated Permitting Process Is a Massive, Self-Inflicted Wound on Our Country’

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TRUMP: “It took 11 months to build the Empire State Building. But today it can take as long as a decade and much more than that. Many, many stories where it takes 20, 25 years just to get approvals to start construction of a fairly routine highway. Highway builders must get up to 16 different approvals involving nine different federal agencies governed by 29 different statues. One agency alone can stall a project for many, many years and even decades. Not only does this cost our economy billions of dollars but it also denies our citizens the safe and modern infrastructure they deserve. This overregulated permitting process is a massive, self-inflicted wound on our country. It is disgraceful. Denying our people much needed investments in their community."