2025 Law and Policy – Carrying Forward in the 2nd Trump Administration
By 2016, the year of Donald Trump’s first election, Norman Anderson had been a thought-leader in the blue-chip infrastructure community for over thirty years. Frustrated with the inability of that era’s policy makers to understand and deal with the demands of 21st century infrastructure, he decided to reach out to the incoming Administration in the hope that a businessman without preconceived attitudes would be able to reformulate infrastructure policy to focus it toward the future, make it more nimble and efficient, effectively engage the private sector and otherwise do what is necessary to evolve a policy which will return the U.S. to its proper position as the country with the worlds’ most efficient, most productive and most sustainable infrastructure. In 2016, he established Blueprint 2025 and The Strategic Infrastructure Performance Institute as vehicles to promote that outreach.
The two organizations, together with Norman’s CG/LA Infrastructure, collaborated with the Trump infrastructure team at a high level throughout the term of that Administration –exchanging views, convening and generally promoting a productive dialog with the thought leaders of the infrastructure community. By the end of 2019, despite embedded resistance from the “old guard” which saw infrastructure as largely limited to publicly financed roads, streets and bridges – infrastructure thought leaders agreed that a proper definition of infrastructure would include all of the foundational systems —from transportation to communication, to digitization, satellite imagery and the internet — which would be needed to support progress in the fourth industrial revolution. It was also by that time clearly recognized that the private sector would have to be a driving force and a substantial source of both intellectual and financial capital if goals were to be achieved.
Norman embodied this important infrastructure philosophy, developed during the Trump Administration, in his book Vision: Our Strategic Infrastructure Roadmap Forward published in March of 2021. Since his untimely death in December of that year, Norman’s friends and colleagues have been carrying these insights forward by continuing to support the Institute and the Blueprint 2025 Initiative which Norman founded in 2016.
We welcome the opportunity in this second Trump Administration to carry forward what Norman started in Trump I.
The posts below are our inputs to date. We will be updating periodically.
Thoughts, comments and suggestions are always welcome at 2025@2025lawandpolicy.com
Resources
Expediting and improving NEPA reviews – Blueprint 2025 Comments – 1/7/2025 (click link below)
https://2025lawandpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Comments-of-Blueprint-2025-re-Appalachian-Hydrogen-Hub-–-Phase-1-Virtual-NEPA-Scoping-Meeting-1-7-25.docx-1.pdf
Expediting and improving NEPA reviews – Summary of oral remarks – Continuing the Trump I Initiative – 1/20/2025 (click link below)
https://2025lawandpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Summary-of-oral-comments-of-Blueprint-2025-1-20-25.pdf
Financing public infrastructure by leveraging private investments – 1/22/2025 (click link below)
https://2025lawandpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Note-from-BP-2025-re-Comments-of-Blueprint-2025-1-22-25.pdf
Reducing red tape – Perspectives on the Trump – Musk kickoff – 1/29/2025 (click link below)
https://2025lawandpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Reinventing-Government-1-29-25.pdf
Comments re DOGE Caucus Announcement (click link below)
https://2025lawandpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Comments-re-DOGE-Caucus-Announcement.pdf