They voted for Trump. Will he green light their $2B infrastructure project?

By Natalie Fertig
Politico
March 27, 2025
Category: Business & Politics
Region: United States, US West

COOS BAY, Oregon More than a dozen lumber mills once dotted the landscape around Coos Bay, a horseshoe-shaped estuary on Oregon’s remote southwest coast. Now, there is just one. The timber industry dominated the state’s economy for more than 100 years. Then in the 1980s and 1990s, trade and environmental policies decimated timber country, permanently altering Oregon’s economy. It also transformed the area’s politics: Voters in Coos County, historically a blot of blue in a sea of rural red, voted for President Donald Trump by more than 20 percentage points last November. …Now, local officials are banking on a $2 billion-plus plan to revitalize the Coos Bay port and jumpstart the region’s stagnant economy. But the project relies on funding awarded by the Biden administration, and the entire plan is in limbo under Trump.

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