Ports warn grant pause threatens projects, jobs and shore‑power upgrades

At a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee hearing on maritime infrastructure, port leaders and members of Congress warned that a recent pause or review of federal infrastructure grants is disrupting port projects and putting jobs at risk.

Representative Larson, ranking member of the full committee, told the subcommittee that "the president's executive order to pause infrastructure funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act is putting billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of jobs, and tens of thousands of projects at risk." The concern echoed across witnesses, who said ports built near‑term plans around federal grants that now face uncertainty.

The uncertainty matters because federal programs helped fund a wave of port investments after the…