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In this Oct. 15, 2010, file photo, a miner stands in front of the drill machine "Sissi" after it broke through the rock at the final section Faido-Sedrun, at the construction site of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel. With a length of 57 km (35 miles) crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2017. (AP Photo/Christian Hartmann, Pool, File)

Tunnel vision: Financial guru bullish on massive project stifled by North Korea's nuclear crisis

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2019, to attend a campaign rally in Montoursville, Pa. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump tells Democrats to approve trade deal before he'll agree on infrastructure

"So if $2 trillion is so easy to get a hold of, we should probably get a hold of it and fill the budget gaps that we have today," said Rep. Rob Woodall, Georgia Republican. (Associated Press)

Top Republican skeptical of Trump $2 trillion infrastructure plan

President Donald Trump gives thumbs up after arriving on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, May 17, 2019, in Washington. Trump is returning from a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump to lift steel, aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico

President Donald Trump speaks about modernizing the immigration system in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump delays decision on tariffs for imported autos, car parts

In this Monday April 29, 2019 photo, Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to reporters at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom officially abandoned the plan of his predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown, to build giant 35-mile twin tunnels to ship water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to Southern California, Thursday, May 2, 2019. Instead Newsom is opting to build a single tunnel with a different design and a lower price. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Trump administration pulls $1 billion in California high-speed rail money

In this June 14, 2018, file photo, Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

NTSB: Autopilot was in use before Tesla hit semitrailer

In this Thursday, June 25, 2015, photo, activists hold Confederate flags near the monument for Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE* *

Virginia panel votes to rename Jefferson Davis Highway

In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, file photo, a driver displaying Lyft and Uber stickers on his front windshield drops off a customer in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Uber, Lyft blamed for worsening traffic by researchers

Emergency response crews transport an injured passenger to an ambulance at the George Inlet Lodge docks, Monday, May 13, 2019, in Ketchikan, Alaska. The passenger was from one of two float planes reported down in George Inlet early Monday afternoon and was dropped off by a U.S. Coast Guard 45-foot response boat. (Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

NTSB to investigate in Alaska after deadly midair collision

This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the Uber app on an iPad in Baltimore. Uber is about to embark on a wild ride on Wall Street with the biggest and most hotly debated IPO in years. Uber's shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, May 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Uber begins trading nearly 7% below its IPO price

In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers questions during a presidential forum held by She The People, on the Texas State University campus in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)

Bernie Sanders supports Uber, Lyft driver strike: 'The greed has got to end'

In this March 15, 2017, file photo, a sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Drivers for ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are planning to turn off their apps to protest what they say are declining wages at a time when both companies are raking in billions of dollars from investors. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Uber, Lyft drivers plan to strike in cities across the U.S.

The Sukhoi SSJ100 aircraft of Aeroflot airlines is covered in fire retardant foam after an emergency landing in Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Scores of people died when the Aeroflot airliner burst into flames while making the emergency landing at the airport Sunday evening, officials said. (Moscow News Agency photo via AP)

41 dead in Moscow plane fire; experts hunt for reason why

In this June 28, 2018, file photo, rolls of finished steel are seen at the U.S. Steel Granite City Works facility in Granite City, Ill. United States Steel Corp. reports financial results Thursday, May 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

U.S. Steel plows $1B into western Pennsylvania operations

Safety advocates say Wednesday's passing of the Florida Senate's bill to establish insurance guidelines for on-demand ride companies that use self-driving cars is another step toward the state becoming a dangerous "testing ground." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Safety advocates slow Florida's rush for driverless cars

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. and other Democrats, talk to the media after meeting with President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump, Democrats agree in principle on $2 trillion infrastructure plan

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., accompanied by Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, calls on a reporter during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, after President Donald Trump announces a deal to reopen the government for three weeks. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Chuck and Nancy return to White House with 'big and bold' list of liberal demands

Emergency crews work at the scene of a construction crane collapse near the intersection of Mercer Street and Fairview Avenue near Interstate 5 Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Seattle. Several people were killed and others wounded when the crane collapsed Saturday afternoon in downtown Seattle, pinning cars underneath. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times via AP)

4 dead after construction crane crushes cars in Seattle

An airplane flies between the air traffic control tower and the Washington Monument at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Reagan National Airport to host full-scale emergency drill

In this April 10, 2019, file photo a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane being built for India-based Jet Airways lands following a test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle. Boeing Co. reports earnings Wednesday, April 24. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Boeing pulls 2019 forecast, suspends buybacks

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is shown in this April 4, 2019 file photo. Mrs. Pelosi told the TIME 100 Summit on April 23 that she has a meeting planned the next week with President Trump to discuss moving forward on an infrastructure bill. (Associated Press/File)

Pelosi to meet with Trump on infrastructure next week

This undated combination of photos shows clockwise from top left the logos for Toyota, Honda, Kia, Fiat Chrysler, Mitsubishi and Hyundai. U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning air bag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles because the bags may not inflate in a crash. Vehicles made by Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and Fiat Chrysler from the 2010 through 2019 model years are included in the probe, which was revealed Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (AP Photos)

U.S. expands probe into air bag failures to 12.3M vehicles

In this March 2, 2019, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, speaks during a news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 Demo-1 launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Tesla gears up for fully self-driving cars amid skepticism

In a March 13, 2019, file photo, an American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits at a boarding gate at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

13 American Airlines passengers taken to hospital after landing in Boston

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal is seen as a TSA official moves a bin for additional screening at a newly designed passenger screening lane unveiled at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Supreme Court to weigh if pilot can sue former TSA agent who 'karate-chopped' him in crotch

In this Jan. 19, 2017, file photo Martin Winterkorn, former CEO of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen, arrives for a questioning at an investigation committee of the German federal parliament in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

Martin Winterkorn, former Volkswagen CEO, charged with fraud in Germany

Workers walk past a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane being built for TUI Group at Boeing Co.'s Renton Assembly Plant Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Trump: 'No product has suffered like' Boeing's 737 Max 8

Presidential hopeful, Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses a crowd during a campaign rally, Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh stop was part of a weekend tour of Midwest battleground states, including Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Bernie Sanders challenges Trump to stand up for workers, pressure GM over plant closures

In a March 13, 2019 file photo, an American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits at a boarding gate at LaGuardia Airport in New York. American Airlines said Sunday, April 7, 2019, it is extending by over a month its cancellations of about 90 daily flights as the troubled 737 Max plane remains grounded by regulators. The Boeing-made Max jets have been grounded in the U.S. and elsewhere since mid-March, following two deadly crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

American Airlines cancels Boeing 737 Max flights through mid-August

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