Biden Threatens To Veto GOP Spending Bill That Would 'Cut' Amtrak Funding to Double Pre-Pandemic Levels
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"Amtrak Joe" Biden is doing what he can to earn his nickname by threatening to veto Republicans' plans to "cut" funding to Amtrak to near-historic highs.
Working its way through the GOP-controlled House of Representatives right now is H.R. 4820, a housing and transportation appropriations bill that would provide Amtrak with $867 million in grants for the coming fiscal year.
That's hardly chump change. Yet the White House has condemned the subsidy as woefully insufficient.
On Monday, the White House's Office of Budget and Management (OMB) released a statement criticizing the various cuts proposed by House Republicans to housing…
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