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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JULY 20, 2017
Subject
SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Legislative Report.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared By Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations Senior Director, Federal Affairs
Chairman Garcetti and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on a number of federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on June 30, 2017 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on July 20, 2017. Status of relevant pending Federal legislation is monitored on the Metro Government Relations Legislative Matrix, which is updated monthly.
Trump Infrastructure Plan
President Trump has announced plans to make public, as early as this month, his plan to invest $1 trillion in America's infrastructure. As shared previously with the Board last month, our agency has and will continue to work with the White House and Congressional stakeholders to ensure that our Board-approved priorities are reflected in any infrastructure plan advanced by the Trump Administration and then considered by the 115th Congress. We believe that with the passage of both Measures R and M, Metro is smartly positioned to benefit from most any infrastructure plan put forward by the Trump Administration and considered by Congress later this year.
Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2018
In May, the President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Trump Administration's Fiscal Year 2018 Federal Budget recommendations to Congress. Unfortunately, the budget specified that the Administration is proposing to eliminate funding for the Federal Transit Administration's Capital Investment Grant Program and the popular TIGER Grant Program. Metro has and will continue to work with our Congressional Delegation, Members of C...
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