The Hill
February 9, 2022
Top Senate Republicans are urging states to ignore the Biden administration’s guidance on how to utilize funding from the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law in November. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) penned a letter to governors on Wednesday encouraging them to ignore a December memo from the Federal Highway Administration that called for recipients of highway funding to take action on projects that enhance the conditions and safety of existing transportation infrastructure before proceeding with efforts to add new travel lanes. Federal Highway Administration Deputy Administrator Stephanie Pollack wrote in the December memo that her agency would “implement policies and undertake actions to encourage—and where permitted by law, require—recipients of Federal highway funding to select projects that improve the condition and safety of existing transportation infrastructure within the right-of-way before advancing projects that add new general purpose travel lanes serving single occupancy vehicles.”
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