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DOT awards $3.3B to reconnect communities, offers funding for other transportation projects

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Meanwhile, President Biden's 2025 budget for transportation calls for $4 billion for large transit projects and $1.2 billion for the use of low-embodied-carbon materials.

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DOT Budget Hearing Shows Bipartisan Infrastructure Support

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The initial congressional hearing on President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget proposal for the Dept. of Transportation showed evidence of continued strong bipartisan support for infrastructure, though the parties differed on the specifics.

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Proposed Budget Cuts $2.4 Billion from DOT

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The White House has released the first draft of President Trump's America First - A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again and in it is a 13-percent cut to the Department of Transportation's funding.

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FY 2017 Transportation Budget Tops $98 Billion

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President Obama’s FY 2017 budget includes $98.1 Department of Transportation (DOT). DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx said the budget reflects his “Beyond Traffic” initiative and “fully supports” the authorized funding levels in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. billion for the U.S.

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FY2015 Budget Requests $90.9B for Transportation

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In its fiscal year 2015 budget request, the Obama administration requested $90.9 Department of Transportation (DOT). billion for the U.S. The money would be used to address the country’s growing infrastructure deficit and as an investment in the national infrastructure network.'

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Wisconsin Construction Audit Leads to New DOT Budget Bill

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed new legislation Wednesday that will clarify how major project cost estimates will be reported to the Transportation Projects Commission (TPC).

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US DOT Move to Revise TIGER Grants Faces Heat in Senate

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of Transportation plan to reshape and rename the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, grants has come under fire from senior Senate appropriators. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who chairs the appropriations subcommittee responsible for DOT’s budget, and Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.),

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