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Committee presses nominee on paused infrastructure programs, Buy America and NEPA state assignments
Summary
Senators used the hearing to press Stephen Bradbury about recent administration pauses on infrastructure programs including the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure grants, Buy America implementation, NEPA assignment renewals and project-specific inquiries such as the Gateway tunnels and deepwater port applications.
Senators pressed Stephen Bradbury about the administration's review and pauses of federally funded infrastructure programs, including questions about whether those pauses were lawful and how they would affect projects already underway.
Delaware's Senator (Blunt Rochester) and Senator Tammy Baldwin voiced constituent concerns about the pause of grant programs that followed the bipartisan infrastructure law, saying communities had projects with "shovels in the ground." Bradbury replied that "the secretary and all of us at DOT need to follow the law" and that where statute requires action, the department must comply; where the department exercises…
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