Worried that it would make Democratic leadership look good in an election year, Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee for president,  prevailed on cowardly GOP House members to kill a bipartisan deal for a United States-Mexico border wall, another bullet point in the ongoing evidence of Trump’s woeful lack of fitness for office.

Thankfully, the labor movement is poised to play a significant role in this year’s presidential election, and Vice President Kamala Harris can run on the considerable labor record of the Biden-Harris Administration. Consider alone the $461 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which funds over 60,000 projects nationwide, among them a $16 billion dollar, long-delayed Hudson Tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey. Other projects, according to the White House, “range from repaving roads and water system upgrades funded through formula grants to states to competitive funding for massive bridge and transit projects. This map of signature projects is illustrative and is intended to showcase the far-reaching impact of the law from coast to coast.” This is good news for Building Trades Labor, where, to paraphrase New Jersey Labor Leader William Mullen, “All we do is build”…

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