Hotline #1,007: NARP Opposes New Proposed Federal Budget Cuts; Florida Brightline To Start...

Check Out Our Newest Hotline! NARP thanks those members who have sent in industry-related news stories, op-eds, editorials, or letters to the editor from your communities. We include them in our social media efforts, along with the weekly Hotline. Please send your news items to Bob Brady, bbrady@xenophonstrategies.com, and we will continue to share it with the membership. We also ask members to send events that we can put on the website here. And please follow NARP on Facebook and Twitter. The Trump Administration released its first proposed general budget this week, which included steep cuts to long distance rail, commuter rail and transit. The “skinny budget” outlined the Administration’s proposal to cut spending – despite campaign promises of major infrastructure investment. Overall, the budget cuts $2.4 billion from transportation, or 13 percent of the previous year’s budget and attacks Amtrak’s long-

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