Trump Delays More Federal Transit Funds
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Barely a quarter of the money Congress has sent the Feds for new transit projects over the last two years has been awarded. Dozens of cities are waiting on funds.
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Kochs Want to Kill Light Rail in Phoenix
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A group presenting themselves as neighborhood residents and business owners is receiving funding from Koch-backed groups. We have receipts.
Trump’s Federal Transit Administration Has Gone Rogue
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More evidence from the GAO that under Trump, federal officials are obstructing programs intended to improve transit in American cities.
Trump Administration Withholding $1.4 Billion in Transit Funds Authorized by Congress
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The money is ready and waiting. Yet only one transit project has received funding this fiscal year, putting more than a dozen others in jeopardy.
Slowly and Stealthily, Trump’s DOT Starves Transit Expansion Projects of Federal Funds
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The Trump administration has slowed the release of federal transit grants to such a crawl that expansion projects in the works for years are now in jeopardy.
Only Six Cities Are Worthy of Rail Funding, Manhattan Institute Scholar Decrees
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A new report from Manhattan Institute senior fellow Aaron Renn argues that the federal government should stop supporting new rail lines in cities across the country.