The House Appropriations Committee early Thursday approved its fiscal 2027 Department of Transportation spending bill 34-27 after adjusting the legislation to prohibit any of its money from flowing to so-called sanctuary cities.
The panel adopted a handful of amendments, including one that would curtail a Biden-era congressional directive to mandate advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology in new passenger vehicles.
As a whole, House Republican appropriators rely heavily on repurposed dollars from the 2021 infrastructure law in the bill. The proposal would shore up air traffic control needs in part by using $1 billion in unobligated funding for electric vehicle charging stations.
When accounting for funds from the Biden-era package, DOT would see a year-over-year jump of $1.2 billion, with $111.6 billion total in the upcoming fiscal year when combining discretionary and mandatory spending. But without factoring in transfers, DOT would get a $4.7 billion cut in total budgetary resources.
