Route Fifty
By Kery Murakami
MARCH 10, 2022
The $1.5 trillion legislation would keep the federal government funded through September. It does not include provisions to grant more flexibility with state and local American Rescue Plan spending. Congress backed off proposed cuts to state aid—for now. The U.S. Senate late Thursday night passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill that covers the remainder of the federal fiscal year, avoiding a government shutdown. The vote, on the heels of the House’s passage of the measure on Wednesday, is significant for states and localities in that it allowed lawmakers to avoid passing another temporary spending bill that would have kept frozen $40 billion in transportation funding approved in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. “With this package, we will be unlocking billions upon billions to fully fund the bipartisan infrastructure law,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said before the vote. “Now that IIJA has been funded, public works departments throughout America can finally get to work repairing, upgrading or replacing aging highways, roads, bridges, water and wastewater systems,” American Public Works Association CEO Scott Grayson said in a statement on Friday.
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