Capitol Hill
Congress Allows $36B in Transportation Cuts as Reauthorization Efforts Stall: Congress is
taking a big step back on transportation programs for local governments this September with a30 percent cut to overall federal transportation funding.
US Department of Transportation News
Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Celebrates Launch of Federal eVTOL Pilot
Program in North Carolina to Unlock Future of Flight: ‘More than 120 years after the Wright
Brothers took to the skies at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina is again leading the charge to transformhow Americans move.
Federal highway administrator to tour Oahu, Maui transportation projects: Federal HighwayAdministration Administrator Sean McMaster will join Hawaii Department of TransportationDirector Ed Sniffen for site visits tied to emergency relief and infrastructure funding.
U.S. Department of Transportation formally announces federal loan for I-10 bridge project: Thefederal government will loan up to $2.52 billion to Alabama to build a bridge across the MobileRiver and reconfigure the Bayway.
Trump administration drops appeal to block federal funding for Gateway Tunnel project: OnSeptember 18 , the Trump administration agreed to drop an appeal that tried to block federal
funding for the massive Gateway Tunnel and other infrastructure projects in the region.
Transit News
Idaho may see an 18% drop in federal surface transit funding, largest estimated cut in US:
Transit systems in rural communities are much more reliant on federal funding to provide their
services.
U.S. Port News
Local water projects on path to federal support as WRDA 2026 clears House: The Water
Resources Development Act of 2026 targets flood protection, ports, waterways and water supplywhile giving communities more tools to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Coast Guard offloads over $57 million in illicit drugs interdicted in the Caribbean Sea: U.S.
Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba’s crew offloaded approximately 7,250 pounds of cocaine and 2,082pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $57 million, Monday, in Port Everglades.
Mexico’s Progreso port draws bids of up to US$130mn in dredging retender: Four bidders
submitted proposals in the repeat tender for construction dredging of the 40ha north platform at
the Mexican port of Progreso in Yucatán.
