Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said on Wednesday that despite all their public criticism, Republican lawmakers tell him in private that they think the administration’s stimulus package has been a success.
“I believe the economic recovery plan has worked,” LaHood said, in an interview with the Huffington Post, “and I’ve had Republican members tell me that when I’ve gone in and done projects or been with them or visited them in their offices… They know that we have dollars that have put people to work.”
Speaking days before he was set to address a conference of progressive activists, LaHood’s remarks were offered as part of a broader defense of the president’s economic recovery agenda.
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