WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.) joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and 39 Democratic colleagues in demanding the Trump Administration stop delaying the advancement of public transportation projects funded by the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program. Currently, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has access to more than $1.9 billion in unobligated and unallocated funds ready to be spent. However, the Trump Administration continues to hold up significant projects in blue states while red states' projects move ahead.
In a letter to FTA Acting Deputy Administrator Mathew Cahill and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Admini...