A Coalition Pushes Democrats to Restore $10 Billion to the Transit Budget
A coalition of trade associations, labor unions and environmental groups on Monday urged Democratic leaders to allocate an additional $10 billion for public transit in the party’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill.
That’s the amount of transit funding that was cut out of the final $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate earlier this month, the groups wrote in letters to congressional leaders and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
“The bipartisan group of senators and the White House agreed to boost transit funding by $49 billion in the deal they proudly touted,” Beth Osborne, director of Transportation for America, said in a statement Monday. “But they dropped $10 billion, abandoning their own deal for no reason.”
