In an interview with CNN’s New Day host John Berman, New York Republican Nicole Malliotakis looked right into the camera and said Donald Trump should get some of the credit for the landmark infrastructure bill headed to Joe Biden’s desk.

The freshman lawmaker from NY11 told Berman that the former president had “laid the groundwork” for passage of the bill and that he was “one of the first to talk about” the need for such a spending bill.

President Trump deserves some credit for initially saying we need to invest $1 trillion in our infrastructure.

Of course, many presidents before Trump have been concerned with America’s flagging roads and bridges and a need to put people to work on popular improvement projects. And the bill just passed is larger than anything Trump called for, as well.

The more ironic part about Malliotakis’ statement is of course that Trump likely could have gotten enough Democrats on board to pass his own infrastructure bill while he was in office. Instead, every time “infrastructure week” came up in Trump’s White House, he somehow managed to muck everything up and derail the process with whatever Twitter feuds or “fake news” meltdowns he was having that day.

If anything, Trump might deserve a little credit because we all saw how much it sucked that he didn’t get anything along these lines done. And if you can’t serve as a productive president, you should at least serve as an instructive one on what not to do.

Watch the exchange between Berman and Malliotakis here, courtesy of New Day:

“When they pay their taxes, they want basic things,” says Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of taxpayers and infrastructure.
“I’m happy to have joined with my colleagues… one of the few bipartisan things I have been able to say has been accomplished,” she says of the infrastructure bill. pic.twitter.com/tYbYXFRaqj

— New Day (@NewDay) November 8, 2021

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