Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JUNE 18, 2025
Subject
SUBJECT: FEDERAL AND STATE REPORT
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE June 2025 Federal and State Legislative Report.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared by Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations, Executive Officer: Federal Affairs
Chair Hahn and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on several key federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on June 4, 2025, and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on June 19, 2025. The status of relevant pending legislation is monitored on the Metro Government Relations Legislative Matrix, which is updated monthly.
Fiscal Year 2026 President's Budget
On May 30, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget which is part of the Executive Office of the President, released portions of the President's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget. The document proposed a total of $147 billion for the U.S. Department of Transportation, including funding for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Federal Highway Administration, among other agencies. The Budget recommends approximately $17 billion for the FTA, with $14.6 billion of this amount set aside for transit formula grants. The Budget would move to eliminate unobligated balances from prior years for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grant Programs. The Budget would also significantly boost funding for the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America grant program by $770 million - increasing the total for that grant program to $2.3 billion. Metro staff will be carefully reviewing the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget to fully understand its impact on our agency.
On the same day that the Budget was released, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued their Fiscal Year 2026 Ne...
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