Senate ‘Skinny’ COVID Bill Leaves Mass Transit Starving
Guess that’s why they call it a clown car instead of a clown bus.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators revealed a coronavirus compromise bill on Tuesday morning that provides less than half of what transit agencies need, an offer that advocates and transit agencies greeted with like being given a lump of coal on Christmas.
The $908-billion bill from a group that includes Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Other Virginia) is what Warner called “an interim package” before Joe Biden takes office in 2021. Among other pieces of kind-of relief, the bill offers $45 billion for the country’s transportation sector as a whole, of which $15 billion goes to transit agencies.
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