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Infrastructure plan promised in two or three weeks arrives in February 2018
In an Oval Office interview with CBS News's John Dickerson aired May 1, 2017, Trump said of the infrastructure plan: We have got the plan largely completed, and we will be filing over the next two or three weeks, maybe sooner. The $1.5 trillion plan was released February 12, 2018, roughly nine months later. No comprehensive infrastructure package was enacted during the term; PolitiFact closed its infrastructure investment promise as Promise Broken.
Context
This is a term 45 instance and is labeled by term, since the series accepts instances from both terms. The statement was a prediction of timing rather than a commitment to a deadline, and the plan was eventually produced, so the finding is a timeline that slipped rather than a plan that never appeared. The plan itself did not become law. The interview was one Oval Office sitting whose segments aired across CBS programs; the quote is taken from the CBS transcript. The no-package-enacted clause rests on PolitiFact's July 2020 closure of the promise, which predates the end of the term by six months.
Sources
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President Trump's interview in the Oval Office, full transcript
CBS News, John Dickerson interview, published May 1, 2017
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Building a Stronger America: President Donald J. Trump's American Infrastructure Initiative
White House fact sheet, February 12, 2018
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Compilation of two-week deadline statements
NPR, Rachel Treisman, June 20, 2025, updated April 2, 2026
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PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Invest $550 billion in infrastructure
PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter promise 1348, Promise Broken, final update July 15, 2020