{"id":1028096,"date":"2023-11-06T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1028096"},"modified":"2023-11-09T22:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:03:26","slug":"president-bidens-historic-investment-helps-get-transportation-infrastructure-back-on-track-while-maga-house-gop-pushes-to-derail-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/president-bidens-historic-investment-helps-get-transportation-infrastructure-back-on-track-while-maga-house-gop-pushes-to-derail-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden\u2019s Historic Investment Helps Get Transportation Infrastructure Back on Track, While MAGA House GOP Pushes to Derail Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to President Biden\u2019s announcement of a historic $16.4 billion for passenger rail projects, DNC spokesperson <\/em>Sarafina Chitika released the following statement:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday\u2019s historic investment is just the latest in President \u2018Amtrak Joe\u2019 Biden\u2019s work to get our infrastructure back on track. Under Donald Trump, progress on rail projects stalled and his long-awaited \u2018Infrastructure Week\u2019 became a punchline and not a reality. While Trump\u2019s MAGA minions in the House remain hellbent on slashing funding for the infrastructure Americans rely on to get to work, go to school, and get home to their families, President Biden is delivering safe, reliable infrastructure for the American people and helping to create good jobs along the way.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden announced the biggest investment in passenger rail the United States has seen since Amtrak\u2019s founding, thanks to the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Amtrak Joe\u2019 Biden touts $16 billion for passenger rail projects near his home in Delaware.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cThe money comes from the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law that Biden signed nearly two years ago, one of several legislative achievements that the president is touting as he gears up for his reelection bid.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delaware News Journal<\/a>: \u201cBiden, who famously logged more than 2 million miles by train as a U.S. senator while commuting between Wilmington and Washington, is expected to lay out the specifics of a $66 billion Amtrak investment contained in the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAGA House Republicans are turning their backs on local communities \u2013 both urban and rural \u2013 and undermining American infrastructure transportation by proposing draconian cuts. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roll Call<\/a>: \u201cHouse Republicans from the Northeast temporarily derailed the chamber\u2019s plan to proceed with the fiscal 2024 Transportation-HUD spending bill, which would slash 64 percent, or $1.6 billion, from Amtrak\u2019s fiscal 2023 level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insider<\/a>: \u201cMany congressional Republicans have repeatedly attempted to slash funding for passenger rail and other infrastructure priorities. The House is poised to vote in early November on a transportation funding bill that would strip about $1.5 billion in funding from Amtrak \u2014 an approximately 64% cut in the rail system’s annual federal funding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House Fact Sheet<\/a>: \u201cThis reduction in funding would require Amtrak to reduce most, if not all, long-distance services, reduce certain Northeast Corridor regional train frequencies, and reduce or defer nearly 400 capital projects across the country.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As President Biden is announcing billions in rail grants today, MAGA House Republicans are planning to vote on new rail cuts later this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cA split screen on rail\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Joe Biden travels to Wilmington, Del., today to announce $16.4 billion in grants for passenger rail along the Northeast Corridor, including $9 billion in fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2023 funds and $7.4 billion in future commitments of the FRA\u2019s Federal State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail grant program. \u2026 Later this week, however, the House is scheduled to vote on a bill that would cut funding for Amtrak by about $1.5 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MAGA House majority has been hellbent on slashing critical infrastructure funding \u2013 including projects that would improve rail safety. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cIt took decades for Congress to deliver on its promise to pour new money into the nation\u2019s roads, bridges, pipes, ports and internet connections. Now, House Republicans are trying to slash some of the same funds. A series of GOP bills to finance the federal government in 2024 would wipe out billions of dollars meant to repair the nation\u2019s aging infrastructure, potentially undercutting a 2021 law that was one of Washington\u2019s rare recent bipartisan achievements. The proposed cuts could hamstring some of the most urgently needed public-works projects across the country, from improving rail safety to reducing lead contamination at schools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Donald Trump, \u201cInfrastructure Week\u201d was a complete joke.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cNo fewer than seven times \u2013 including this very week \u2013 has Trump\u2019s White House declared that its chosen theme of a week would be infrastructure \u2013 only to see those plans thwarted, often by the President himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times<\/a>: \u201cAt this point in the Trump presidency, \u2018Infrastructure Week\u2019 is less a date on the calendar than it is a \u2018Groundhog Day\u2019-style fever dream doomed to be repeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRoughly two years after the White House first came up with the idea of discussing, for all of seven days, the pursuit of a bipartisan agreement to rebuild the nation\u2019s roads, bridges and broadband networks, President Trump more or less torpedoed those plans on Wednesday in a Rose Garden speech.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to President Biden\u2019s announcement of a historic $16.4 billion for passenger rail projects, DNC spokesperson Sarafina Chitika released the following statement:\u00a0 \u201cToday\u2019s historic investment is just the latest in President \u2018Amtrak Joe\u2019 Biden\u2019s work to get our infrastructure back on track. Under Donald Trump, progress on rail projects stalled and his long-awaited \u2018Infrastructure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPresident Biden\u2019s Historic Investment Helps Get Transportation Infrastructure Back on Track, While MAGA House GOP Pushes to Derail Funding - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/president-bidens-historic-investment-helps-get-transportation-infrastructure-back-on-track-while-maga-house-gop-pushes-to-derail-funding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-06T22:02:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-09T22:03:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-16.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/president-bidens-historic-investment-helps-get-transportation-infrastructure-back-on-track-while-maga-house-gop-pushes-to-derail-funding\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/president-bidens-historic-investment-helps-get-transportation-infrastructure-back-on-track-while-maga-house-gop-pushes-to-derail-funding\/\",\"name\":\"President Biden\u2019s Historic Investment Helps Get Transportation Infrastructure Back on Track, While MAGA House GOP Pushes to Derail Funding - 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