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Brief of diving:
- The United States Department of Transport was awarded $ 3.2 billion in grants to fund 180 projects last week.
- The subsidies went to programs administered directly by the dowry, as well as various operating administrations, with the Federal Road Administration, which received more than $ 1.4 billion, or about 44% of the total.
- The Department of Transport said that in a press release had inherited 3,200 grants not previously obliged to be announced by the Biden administration and that it has so far approved 329 of these grants.
Divide vision:
The Executive Order of January 8 of President Donald Trump, “triggering North -American Energy”, directed all federal agencies to stop paying funds pending the review of each appropriate grant through the Investment and Infrastructure jobs law or the Law of Inflation Reduction. Later, the Secretary of Transport, Sean Duffy, said in a note that the Department would prioritize subsidies for “communities with marriage and birth rate greater than the national average”.
Duffy also warned the recipients of the grant in a letter of April 24 that dealerships must cooperate with the immigration and customs application of the United States and other federal officials and to avoid diversity, heritage and inclusion practices for federal funding.
“The last administration liked to take the headlines, but did not want to do the hard work to build,” Duffy said in a statement. “They also tied the road construction with the red ribbon and left -wing social requirements, adding millions of costs and months late, while our obsolete infrastructure was in poor condition.”
The Federal Traffic Administration will manage $ 497 million in the last subsidies, most of which are in the bus bus program or not. Among the grants were those of the Department of Transport of Connecticut, the Central Florida Regional Transport Authority and the King County Metro traffic in the Washington State.
Amtrak will receive $ 30 million for a bridge replacement program in Maryland in the north corridor -East. The Massachusetts Department of Transport is $ 3.6 million towards the Boston-Albany, New York, the railway runner and the Illinois transport department will receive $ 500,000 for a program to extend the rail service to the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa.
The FHWA will administer $ 1.4 billion more than 17 grants for the repair and bridge improvements. These include projects in Alabama, Minnesota, San Diego and Washington, DC
A complete list of grant awards is available on the Department of Transport website.
