An $8.7 billion grant program to help states build infrastructure resilient to the impact of climate change. A $6.42 billion, five-year program aimed at reducing transportation carbon emissions. A $250 million program to help states and cities come up with plans to alleviate congestion.
As appropriators begin to flesh out the framework for the fiscal 2022 omnibus, those who anxiously waited for passage of a bipartisan infrastructure law last year say those programs and others remain in a holding pattern until that spending bill passes.
The tentative spending framework reached last week still leaves much at stake, particularly for Democrats: They have lauded the infrastructure package as a win. Yet until appropriations are finalized and signed into law, bipartisan law funding above fiscal 2021 levels cannot be spent, and new programs in the law cannot be started.
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