WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is making a push to sell off federal assets as part of its infrastructure plan released Monday.

Trump has repeatedly blamed the "crumbling" state of the nation's roads and highways for preventing the American economy from reaching its full potential.

Among the targeted federal assets: Reagan National and Dulles International airports and two major parkways serving the Washington region, as well as power assets around the country, according to a copy of the proposal.

The Washington Aqueduct, which supplies drinking water in Washington and Northern Virginia, also is on the list.

"The Federal Government owns and operates certain infrastructure that would be more appropriately owned by State, local, or private entities," the Trump plan says.

It calls for giving federal agencies "authority to divest of Federal assets where the agencies can demonstrate an increase in value from the sale would optimize the taxpayer value."

Administration officials said Saturday that the $200 billion in planned federal spending on its infrastructure plan is meant to spur some $1.5 trillion in activity overall. Officials said the $200 billion would come from cuts to existing programs.

Half the money would go to grants for transportation, water, flood control, cleanup at some of the country's most polluted sites and other projects.

States, local governments and other project sponsors could use the grants -- which administration officials view as incentives -- for no more than 20 percent of the cost. Transit agencies generally count on the federal government for half the cost of major construction projects, and federal dollars can make up as much as 80 percent of some highway projects.

The Trump proposal is focused on speeding up permitting by reducing environmental regulations, and trying to prompt state and local governments and private industry to spend more on projects without making major new federal investments.

Some state officials said they were uncertain about how their residents would benefit from such a proposal. Federal assets come with crucial federal dollars that could not easily be replaced, officials said.

"All I can see now is a federal obligation that they're trying to push off. Where would we get the money from without a revenue source?" asked Virginia Finance Secretary Aubrey Layne.

Layne, an accountant and former transportation secretary, said numerous unanswered questions make it impossible to gauge the administration's proposal at this point.

"I don't even know what's being sold - I don't mean just physical, I mean obligations," Layne said. "What level of funding? Is the federal government just going to wash their hands of it?"

Some critics on Capitol Hill have dismissed the administration's math and the thrust of its approach, and pointed to cuts in infrastructure spending long proposed by the administration, which also released its budget request Monday.

Efforts to privatize federal assets were discussed early in the administration by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn and other advisers as a preferred way to come up with capital for much needed improvements. But it was also lambasted as irresponsible by opponents.

A high-profile Trump effort to move the nation's air traffic control system out of government hands was blocked in Congress.

(c) 2018, The Washington Post * Michael Laris

The Associated Press contributed to this report.