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President Trump announced Thursday he will be pulling the plug on yet another advisory council – this one, on infrastructure. The council, which was still being formed, ideally would have advised the president on his highly-hyped $1 trillion infrastructure plan geared towards upgrading the country’s crumbling roads and bridges. The move comes one day after Trump announced he shut down two other job councils, amid a wave of resignations by executives in the wake of the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va. “Rather than putting pressure of the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!" he tweeted. News of the infrastructure advisory council falling apart came from a White House official Thursday afternoon . “The President has announced the end of the Manufacturing Council and the Strategy & Policy Forum. In addition, the President's Advisory Council on Infrastructure, which wa...

President Donald Trump is facing more internal defections, as seven members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council are resigning in protest against his administration. The seven members of the 27-member panel are predominantly Democratic, according to a report by Roll Call. The panel was created by President George W. Bush in 2001 to provide advice to the Secretary of Homeland Security on how to protect America’s information and infrastructure systems. So far, four of the council members who were reported to have resigned have confirmed their resignations to Roll Call: The council members providing that confirmation were [ex Obama administration staffer Cristin] Dorgelo; Christy Goldfuss, a vice president at the Center for American Progress who chaired Obama ’s Council on Environmental Quality; DJ Patil, a political independent who was formerly U.S. chief data scientist under Obama; and Daniel Tangherlini, former administrator of the General Services Administration . “O...