The Biden administration announced $16.4 billion in funding for 25 passenger rail projects along Amtrak’s busy Northeast Corridor, with roughly half going to two major rail bottlenecks that President Joe Biden visited at the beginning of the year.
Biden plans to highlight the Amtrak funding Monday during a visit to New Castle County in Delaware.
The Transportation Department grants, allocated from a 2021 infrastructure law, come as House lawmakers had to delay votes on a fiscal 2024 spending bill for the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development departments over Amtrak funding. Some Republicans from states along the corridor, which runs from Washington to Boston, said they wouldn’t support the measure because of steep cuts to rail funding.
