President-elect promises new jobs and infrastructure spending

Soon after becoming president-elect, Donald Trump talked about fixing our highways and bridges.

"We are going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none, and we will put millions of people to work as we rebuild it," Mr. Trump said Wednesday morning.

The transition website says the Trump administration will invest $550 billion for roads, tunnels, airports and railways but offers no detail.

A recent paper by Trump campaign advisers suggests private companies would spend a trillion dollars on public infrastructure in exchange for federal tax credits.

At an event marking the passage of the Sound Transit 3 light rail plan, KIRO 7 asked WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar what kinds of local projects the Trump administration might fund.

"I think they're getting organized right now," Millar said. "I have no sense of what those priorities might be, but I think we're talking about moving people and goods and services and that's something everybody in the country wants."

President-elect Trump's job-creation promise is similar to President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, which Republicans opposed.

The White House says the stimulus saved or created a nationwide average of 1.6 million jobs a year for the first four years.

State documents from 2010 show the stimulus brought more than $1.5 billion to Washington for transportation.

The state's transportation secretary says he'd welcome more federal money.

"We have, as you know, a lot of work going on around the state and we'd be happy to take all the resources we can find," Millar said.

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