New York City traditionally counts on a great deal of federal funding to support and expand its massive transportation and infrastructure needs.<\/p>\n
But the federal spending bill passed by the U.S. House and Senate last week and signed by President Trump could cause some problems down the road.<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-Manhattan) is the only New York State representative on either the House or Senate Transportation Committees. And while it is still early in the process, Nadler is preparing for the possibility of a transportation turf war.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis bill was just signed into law, and the agencies still have to act on it,\u201d a senior Nadler staffer told the Chronicle. \u201cThere are no direct funding cuts to New York, but there are some dangers.\u201d<\/p>\n
One, he said, is that the reconciliation bill signed by Trump sets topping caps on non-defense spending. With New York City transportation programs and projects relying on non-defense appropriations, those dollars could become less available in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just are people competing for slices of a smaller pie,\u201d the senior staffer said. \u201cCapital investment grants are funds that the Second Avenue subway and other projects rely heavily on. So caps could lead to reduced investment grants, and less funding available for transportation. But we\u2019re going to fight very hard for that, and the other cuts in general.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cuts also include many parts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021, also known as the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act, where many programs have had money not yet obligated to a specific project rescinded.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo while those funds would not technically have been cut from New York City, they could have been available in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some places where the city may have to expect losses are funds for low- or no-emission bus programs, EV charging programs and transportation equity programs aimed at remedying past underfunding of transportation in given areas.<\/p>\n
Nadler also is said to be gearing up for battle next week on a transportation appropriations bill where he has concerns about Republicans looking to cut more from transit, Amtrak and other programs.<\/p>\n
The subject of federal budget cuts to Medicare came up at healthcare-related press conference hosted by Mayor Adams on Monday. But his answer appeared to cover everything from health to immigrant services<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever we fall short on the federal or state level \u2014 because we fall short on both levels \u2014 whenever we fall short on the federal or the state level in receiving the funding that we deserve, New York is the economic engine for the state and for the federal government,\u201d Adams said in a transcript from his office. \u201cWhenever we fall short, we have to go and find ways to fill the gap. We\u2019ve done that.\u201d<\/p>\n
One example he gave was dealing with $7 billion in care and services for migrant and asylum seekers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found ways to ensure that we did not devastate these important programs,\u201d Adams said. \u201cSo we don\u2019t control budgets that are passed on the state level, budgets that are passed on the federal level … So we\u2019re going to do an analysis of the cuts that we are going to be impacted on the federal level, just as we did on the state level, and we\u2019re going to make sure these programs continue to thrive and grow, because we know how important they are.<\/p>\n
Gov. Hochul\u2019s office did not respond to requests for comment on potential impacts to the state prior to the Chronicle\u2019s deadline on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City traditionally counts on a great deal of federal funding to support and expand its massive…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,454,5288,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,522,39554,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-53120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-mayor-eric-adams","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-transportation","18":"tag-u-s-rep-jerry-nadler","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114826916935495367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}