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Secretary Duffy tells appropriators DOT is working through 3,200 announced grants; pledges dashboard and tech tools
Summary
The secretary said DOT inherited a backlog of about 3,200 announced grant awards that still require finalized agreements and pledged to consolidate grant-tracking systems and explore AI to speed processing.
Committee members repeatedly pressed Secretary Sean Duffy on the department’s pace of finalizing grant agreements that were announced under the prior administration.
Duffy told the subcommittee the department inherited “an unprecedented backlog of 3,200 awards” and that his team had approved 405 grants totaling about $4,900,000,000 in the administration’s first 100-plus days. He said…
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