As President Donald Trump pulls back on green funding, state officials are lobbying Congress to retain those dollars for other infrastructure projects that would be more palatable to the current administration and Republicans, like road and bridge repairs.
Republicans negotiating the nation’s next big infrastructure bill seem amenable to the idea, as long as it means they can move funding away from green projects and toward “traditional” ones.
“That’s laying asphalt, pouring concrete, building bridges and building roads,” said House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., in an interview. “Not environmental justice and Green New Deal mandates and all of these other things” found in the 2021 infrastructure law that funded billions of dollars in Biden-era priorities.
