President Joe Biden’s budget request for Amtrak would get chopped down in draft legislation House appropriators released Wednesday, while the overall transportation budget would get a boost.
The Transportation-HUD spending bill would provide $105.4 billion in total budgetary resources to the Transportation Department for fiscal 2023, about $942 million more than Biden requested, according to a summary from the House Appropriations Committee. The agency is funded by a mix of trust funds and discretionary spending.
Appropriators said the legislation would boost discretionary spending on transit and passenger and freight rail by 23%, and expand port programs by almost 30%.
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