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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

Biden proposed budget, subject to negotiation with GOP, includes $350 million for CTA Red Line expansion

CTA Red Line trains wait to come in at the 95th Red Line station on Chicago’s South Side, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s proposed 2024 fiscal year budget, sent to Congress on Thursday, contains $350 million for the CTA’s extension of the Red Line on the South Side, which, if built, would serve many low-income neighborhoods in areas lacking access to the city’s L system.

“My budget is about investing in America and all of America, including places and people and folks who have been forgotten,” Biden said in Philadelphia.

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