President Trump is abandoning plans to form a council of outside advisers on infrastructure, the White House said Thursday .

The council, which had not yet been assembled, would have provided the White House with advice on how to spend billions of dollars to improve the nation's roads, bridges and railways.

"The president's Advisory Council on Infrastructure, which was still being formed, will not move forward," a White House official said.

Bloomberg first reported Trump would not move forward with the council.

The announcement comes on the heels of Trump's dissolution of two major business councils, whose members began to resign en masse over the president's response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va.

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