Biden administration proposes $75 million in port improvements for Houston-Galveston area
The Houston-Galveston region could see a big bump in federal funding for port infrastructure thanks to the White House's proposed budget for the next fiscal year.
The region would get more than a third of what the Biden administration is proposing for the whole of the Texas Gulf Coast.
Biden’s proposal includes $213 million worth of improvements to the entire Texas Gulf Coast. Seventy-five million of that would go to the Houston-Galveston-Texas City complex.
“We're very excited to see the administration's level of support for that complex, in terms of actually doubling the total net investment that we've seen from any other administration largely in recent history,” said Colonel Timothy Vail, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Galveston District.
Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2022/04/01/422416/the-biden-administration-is-proposing-75-million-in-port-improvements-to-houston-galveston-area/
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all of those that take credit for it that aren't named Biden.
