Transportation and Infrastructure in the State of the Union Address, 1997-2017
January 30, 2018 – As we all await President Trump’s State of the Union address tonight, in which he is expected to give some details of his forthcoming infrastructure plan, it is worth looking back at the times that recent Presidents have used the SOTU to speak to transportation and infrastructure issues (or declined to do so). Using the database of Presidential speeches at the American Presidency Project (bookmark it), we used the magic of [Ctrl]-F to search through the last 20 State of the Union addresses for such mentions.