In recent congressional hearings, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asserted that his review of Biden-era federal grants does not delay or cancel any projects. While he claimed progress on reducing grant backlog from his predecessor, concerns are raised as thousands of grants remain unresolved. Duffy described attempts to amend requirements in grants approved under the Biden administration, aiming to save costs by eliminating certain climate and social justice benchmarks. Some lawmakers fear these actions may obscure potential delays in funding, despite Duffy's guarantees of active funding flow for approved projects.
Duffy, though, downplayed that review as a run-of-the-mill effort to work through an administrative backlog created by his predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, who Duffy claimed left office with an estimated 3,200 awards without completed grant agreements.
"The money is going on those projects, they haven't been they haven't been stopped. They haven't been frozen," Duffy told senators. "If we can build quicker and we can build with smarter requirements, I think that we have more money than to build more of your projects, which - everyone wants more projects."
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