USDOT set to let millions in bike, ped, trail, and transit grant funding die, after slow-walking the approval process - Transportation For America

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The Trump administration’s inaction at USDOT may lead to FY2022 grants expiring at the end of Fiscal Year 2025, potentially putting millions in community projects at risk. Unless funding is obligated by September 30, 2025, many grant awardees could see their hard-earned federal support disappear.

After months of highly publicized obfuscation of the grant process, politicized delay, and systemic loss of agency staff capacity, we have received word that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s inaction under the Trump Administration may have been part of a broader strategy to allow unobligated discretionary grant awards to expire at the end of Fiscal Year 2025, potentially cancelling millions worth of project funding. . . .

Due to the lengthy timelines for new programs to be implemented under the IIJA, certain awards with expiring funds were only announced as recently as last year. Worse, recent attacks on projects that do not align with the Trump administration’s priorities may have left hundreds of projects stuck in review limbo if they failed to clear a new, post-award, project-by-project review process. Projects that previously received Fiscal Year 2022 grant awards under these programs but have not yet had grant agreements signed with or funding obligated by USDOT could be at risk.

If your community has an award with USDOT that has not been fully obligated or does not have a fully executed grant agreement, we recommend exploring your legal options before the potential September 30, 2025, cutoff for FY2022 awards.

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USDOT set to let millions in bike, ped, trail, and transit grant funding die, after slow-walking the approval process - Transportation For America