Duffy to lay out transportation funding plan amid cutback push
Source: Roll Call
Posted March 31, 2025 at 6:22am
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is set to return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to pitch the Trump administration’s take on the next big transportation and infrastructure bill as GOP lawmakers mull topline infrastructure funding levels.
Duffy, who will appear at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is operating under the broader Trump administration directive to end spending on green and equity programs featured in the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law and otherwise greatly scale back federal outlays.
That law added $550 billion in new spending — such as new discretionary grant programs for transit, rail and funding for EV charging equipment — to what would’ve otherwise been a traditional surface transportation reauthorization bill. Republican lawmakers have called for a return to tradition when the current authorization expires in 2026. As as Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., put it, that means “laying asphalt, pouring concrete, building bridges and building roads.”
Although Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., voted in favor of the 2021 law, she has argued that the Biden administration’s implementation of certain programs was slow or, in other cases, overreaching. “These programs require significant time and money from eligible applicants, and once a grant has been awarded, the project grant agreement was often taking more than a year to be negotiated and signed by the prior administration, which delays the benefits of each project,” she said in a hearing last month.
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