President Donald Trump has called to invest up to $1 trillion on the nation's infrastructure.

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats happily obliged with an infrastructure plan.

  • Infrastructure plan to cost $1 trillion over 10 years
  • Billions for roads, rail, ports, airports, water and sewer systems, more
  • President Trump has called for a massive investment in the nation's infrastructure

"This is our chance to make some much-needed repairs and create millions of new jobs in the process,” said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, who joined top Democrats in announcing the plan.

The $1 trillion plan would allocate funds for transportation and other infrastructure projects over a 10 year period.

The program includes billions  of dollars to:

  • Repair or reconstruct roads and bridges
  • Rehabilitate water and sewer systems
  • Improve airports
  • Modernize the rail system
  • Modernize or expand ports and waterways
  • Upgrade the power grids and invest in clean energy
  • Modernize, expand and construct VA facilities
  • Rebuild or modernize public schools
  • Offer funds to help communities ideal with blight, affordable housing, traffic congresion and other local issues
  • Expand broadband

Democrats say the plan would create more than 15 million new jobs. 

But Congressional Republicans so far have been cool to an infrastructure investment of this size because of the cost. 

Trump has proposed a $137 billion in federal tax credits to private investors that back transportation projects, as a way to unlock those $1 trillion in investment dollars.

However, there's a concern among those who want a massive infrastructure plan that private investors will not be attracted to projects in areas where they won't get a return on their investment, such as rural or other sparsely populated areas.

The hefty cost led to a limited investment on infrastructure in President Obama's 2009 stimulus plan.

"I wish back in the stimulus bill when we finally got some infrastructure that it had been a lot more, and we got voted down on that," Nelson said.

Republicans also resisted efforts to pass a massive infrastructure bill during the Obama administration.

"Florida is growing at a rate of nearly 1,000 people per day," Nelson said. “You can imagine the toll that’s taking on our state’s infrastructure."

Nelson says among projects he would like to see get infrastructure dollars -- repairs to the 40-year-old Hoover Dike in Lake Okeechobee to prevent problems like the flooding, or the influx of toxic algae that we saw last year in South Florida. 

He would also like to see projects to help South Florida's coastal cities mitigate problems from rising sea levels.