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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MAY 18, 2017
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SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
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RECOMMENDATION
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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 Fasana 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 May 4, 2017 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on June 15, 2017.
Trump Infrastructure Plan
President Trump has announced plans to make public, this month, his plan to invest $1 trillion in America's infrastructure. As we have shared previously with the Board, 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
Later this month, the President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is expected to release the Trump Administration's Fiscal Year 2018 Federal Budget recommendations to Congress. Earlier this year, the OMB issue what was popularly known as a "skinny" budget - that offered a broad outline of the Administration's Fiscal Year 2018 priorities. We are deeply concerned that the budget blueprint outlined in the "skinny" 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...
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