Cuts could drastically reduce investments in Infrastructure and Jobs for American Families and jeopardize the safety of our communities.
Despite the recent assurances in the debt-ceiling deal struck between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy that infrastructure investment and clean energy programs will remain intact, the House Republicans on the Appropriation committee are still looking for ways to cut these important programs.

The proposed bill includes drastic cuts to essential infrastructure investments and may result in the loss of thousands of jobs for workers in communities all across the country.
These cuts would also put many of our communities at risk as bridges and other important infrastructure updates that were planned will not have available funding.
Here are some of the key infrastructure projects that a number of advocates and organizations supporting workers and job growth in the infrastructure bill are worried will be cut:
Reduction of $560 million from a crucial program designed to support states' investments in rail projects.
Cancellation of $800 million in funds for grants that have been instrumental in improving bridges and safety. This program, which has enjoyed bipartisan support for over a decade, has funded critical safety projects nationwide. For instance, it has allocated $25 million for rural bridges in Iowa, contributed to a grade separation safety project in Chula Vista, California, and allocated over $20 million to strengthen an earthen dam in Kentucky, preventing potential catastrophic flooding, among other projects.
Nearly $1 billion in cuts to the nation's passenger rail system, effectively returning funding levels to those seen a generation ago.
Reduction of funding for transit projects, limiting capital investments to levels similar to those of the last century.
Abolishment of funds for the California High-Speed Rail project, the largest infrastructure endeavor in the United States.
According to reports, the House Republicans are using a provision that would require “completion of a full-year appropriations” meaning that if Congress is unable to pass laws setting the prior fiscal year funding rate the 2024 budgets reset to lower rates automatically across the board. According to Roll Call analysis:
“The backstop mechanism House Republicans inserted into last month’s debt ceiling package to ensure the completion of full-year appropriations would cause some collateral damage if triggered: cuts to bipartisan infrastructure law funding enacted two years ago.
That 2021 measure’s $68.5 billion in advance appropriations, which become available starting on Oct. 1, could get hit by across-the-board cuts starting more than halfway through the fiscal year next May — impacting grants for Amtrak, bridge repairs, clean energy research and drinking water and sewage line upgrades.”
Meanwhile, the same Republicans on the House Appropriation Committee have protected a provision that would ensure all Congress members receive a 4.6 percent, or $8,000, pay increase in 2023.