Although the bill rescinds “unobligated” funds, Albina Vision Trust remains optimistic about $488 million in federal highway grants.
BY SOPHIE PEEL and AARON MESH
WILLAMETTE WEEK
The U.S. House’s passage of a sweeping tax policy bill backed by President Donald Trump jeopardizes high-profile federal transportation grants that state and local officials have penciled in to their budgets—including $488 million for an overhaul of Portland’s Rose Quarter.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded that money…