ISSUE / Week of March 11, 2019
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Amtrak,AppropriationsMarch 11,2019 |President’s FY20 Budget Cuts DOT Appropriations $4.8 Billion, Meets FAST Act HTF Spending Targets, Keeps $200B Infrastructure Placeholder
March 11, 2019 President Trump has released a fiscal year 2020 budget request today that calls for $84.1 billion in gross budgetary resources for the U.S. Department of Transportation today, a... -
Buses,Federal FundingMarch 14,2019 |
Key Senators Introduce Bill Banning Transit Agencies From Procuring Rolling Stock from China-Based Manufacturers
March 14, 2019 Today, a bipartisan group of Senators, including the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee with jurisdiction over mass transit issues, introduced a bill that would...
White House Says $200B for Infrastructure Plan Excludes Surface Transportation Reauthorization
March 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisMarch 15, 2019 As part of its limited fiscal 2020 budget rollout this week, the White House once again proposed $200 billion in immediate mandatory budget authority towards an infrastructure...
FY20 New Starts Report Still Rates Gateway Projects Medium-Low, Making Them Ineligible for Federal Funding
March 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisMarch 15, 2019 As part of the Trump Administration's fiscal 2020 budget (slow your) rollout, the Federal Transit Administration this afternoon released its detailed annual report on its Capital...
Trump FY20 Budget Calls for Trillion-Dollar Deficits Through FY24
March 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisMarch 13, 2019 The outline of President Trump's fiscal year 2020 budget request, released this week, calls for unified federal deficits exceeding $1 trillion in each of fiscal years 2020, 2021,...
FY20 Budget Again Calls to Cut Water Infrastructure Funding by One-Third
March 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisMarch 14, 2019 The few documents made available this week describing President Trump's budget request for fiscal year 2020 (tens of thousands of additional pages will be released next week) show...
FHWA Gives States $36.6 Billion in Full-Year FY19 Highway Funding
March 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisMarch 15, 2019 The Federal Highway Administration on March 11 finally gave state DOTs their full-year distribution of highway funding permission under the year-long Department of Transportation...
Senate Panel OK’s Drake FTA Nomination (Again)
March 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisMarch 15, 2o19 On March 12, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee quietly approved the re-nomination of Thelma Drake to be Administrator of the Federal Transit...
Eno’s 2019 Eno Transit Senior Executive Program Is A Wrap!
March 15, 2019 | Erin ShumateEarlier this month, 36 top transit executives from across the country traveled to Alexandria, VA to take part in Eno’s 15th annual Transit Senior Executive (TSE) Program. TSE students come...
Senate to Take Up Green New Deal, Disaster Relief Appropriations After Recess Week
March 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisMarch 15, 2019 The U.S. Senate (like the House) will be in recess next week. But while the House schedule for the week after recess has not yet been made public, Senate Majority Leader Mitch...