Amtrak and public transit would receive funding boosts for fiscal year 2022 under a draft budget proposal released this week by the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Funding for the national intercity passenger carrier would be $2.7 billion, an increase of $700,000 over the enacted FY2021 figure of $2 billion.
This includes $1,731,307, 307 for Amtrak’s national network and $968,692,693 for the Northeast Corridor.
Amtrak received in FY2021 $700,000,000 for the NEC and $1,300,000,000 for the national network.
Including various grant programs and capital spending total passenger rail funding would be $3,444,860,000 compared with the FY2021 enacted amount of $2,581,720,000.
Public transit funding was set at $13,462,346,462 compared with the FY2021 enacted $12,959,120462.
The funding is contained in Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
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