Issue / Appropriations
Senate Fails to Advance Bill Containing Extra $2B for Intercity Bus COVID Relief
May 19, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Senate earlier today failed to muster the 60 votes necessary to bring up a $48 billion bill providing additional COVID relief,...
Buttigieg Defends FY23 Budget Request before Senate Appropriations
Apr 29, 2022 | Jeff DavisTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday to defend the Biden...
Congressional Leaders Open Negotiations on FY23 Spending Total
Apr 29, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees met yesterday to begin discussions of an overall total for the twelve...
USDOT Gets FY22 Highway and Transit Formula Funding Increases Out the Door
Apr 08, 2022 | Jeff DavisTwin announcements from the U.S. Department of Transportation in the last week have given state and local governments permission to...
Step-by-Step: How $52.5 Billion in New Highway Formula Funding Becomes $47.1 Billion
Apr 08, 2022 | Jeff DavisWhen Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act last year, that bipartisan law was built around significant increases...
Administration Again Proposes Unlikely Cuts in Corps Water Resources Budget
Apr 01, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe Biden Administration has proposed cutting the regular annual budget for the water resources program of the U.S. Army Corps of...
Budget Proposes 14% Non-Defense, 4% Defense Discretionary Appropriations Increases
Mar 30, 2022 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden's fiscal 2023 budget request went to press before the Office of Management and Budget was finished tallying up the...
$2.85 Billion Request for CIG in FY23; Allocation Strategy for IIJA Funding Revealed
Mar 29, 2022 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden's fiscal 2023 budget request, released yesterday, includes a $2.85 billion request for appropriations for the Federal...
FY22 Omnibus Appropriations: The Final Tally
Mar 18, 2022 | Jeff DavisOn Monday, March 14, four days after Congress had passed the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 2022 and sent it to the President,...
What’s in the FY22 Omnibus: US Department of Transportation
Mar 11, 2022 | Jeff DavisFollowing is a summary of the USDOT funding in the omnibus appropriations bills. Readers are also encouraged to download this PDF...
What’s in the FY22 Omnibus: Water Resources Funding
Mar 11, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe just-passed fiscal year 2022 omnibus appropriations bill contains $8.3 billion in funding for the civil works (a.k.a. water...
What’s in the FY22 Omnibus: The Big Picture
Mar 11, 2022 | Jeff DavisEleven months passed between the release of President Biden's fiscal 2022 discretionary appropriations proposal on April 9, 2021 and...