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Brief of diving:
- Federal expenditure on Amtrak, high -speed railway and public transport would be reduced by a bill marked on Monday by the subcommittee on the appropriations of the house on transport, housing and urban development.
- The Sub -Committee’s bill proposed $ 22.1 billion in discretionary expenses for the transport department at 2026, $ 3.149 billion below the tax level 2025 and $ 4,744 billion below the President’s budget application.
- The bill increases expenditure for federal aviation administration by $ 2.3 billion in financing for 2025 and for the administration of the federal road at almost $ 2 billion.
Divide vision:
“The bill reflects the Trump’s administration’s priorities and implements staff reductions in maintaining essential services,” said Smal President Steve Womack, R-Ark during the marking session. “Transportation safety is still our highest priority for dowry.”
The bill assigns $ 14.9 billion for the Federal Traffic Administration, $ 1,777 million below the year 2025 promulgated the level. A 40 million dollars of funds of 2025 are not required for traffic infrastructure aids. However, the bill provides funding for all projects prepared for construction by 2026 through the use of unchanged balances of the previous year and $ 1.6 billion in advance of the Investment and Infrastructure Investment Law.
The Chamber’s Bill calls for $ 2.3 billion per amrak, below the President’s budget proposal, which would maintain the Financing of Amtrak Pla at $ 2.427 billion. The Casa Bill and the White House proposal change the financing of the north hallway -east on the national railway network.
“The republican proposal has an ax in the north corridor,” East, reducing funding for Amtrak and New Jersey Transit, “said Bonnie Watson Colema, DN.J.. New Jersey Transit uses the Attrak line in New York City.
Under the proposal of the house, $ 75 million would be terminated in funding for capital, maintenance and new intercity rail projects or expanded as part of the Passenger Rail Subsidies Program for the Federal State. Representative James Clyburn, DS.C., said that the cut of “zeros exceeded investments for Amtrak, leaving little or no place to make the updates of the necessary infrastructure for the passenger railway”.
The home bill also prohibits the financing of the California High Speed Rail Project to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, which is under construction, and a high -speed railway project proposed in Texas between Dallas and Houston.
