Welcome to March, the month without a Federal holiday, but the month that baseball gets started with Spring Training!! Hold onto your seats, and not just if your along those parts of the East Coast being battered by strong winds and precipitation caused by a nor’easter. We’ve got a lot to cover today. Infrastructure: …
I’ll bet you thought earmarks were already a thing of the past. WRONG Most people say that the President’s budget is dead on arrival. WRONG While Congress prohibited itself from congressionally-directed spending (aka earmarks) in 2011, they didn’t stop the President from earmarking. I’m not talking about funding this program and not funding that one. …
Corps FY19 Budget: In this update, here’s the link to the President’s Corps earmarks for FY19. As you probably know, each Corps study, project and (most) programs are funded by earmarks. The President can make his; Congress cannot make any of their own. Here’s the link to the document that provides all the information about…
Another bad year for coastal storm risk management (aka shore protection) as far as President’s budgets go. The chart below is my listing of everything I could fine in the budget for FY19 released by President Trump moments ago. There are $0 entries wherever I assumed that a study funded by the President last year…
Have we got news!! BTW, don’t forget to check out the WaterLog website at www.aldenst.com/waterlog for background info on coastal resilience, the Corps process etc. There are TWO items in this update. Funds for Corps projects in the budget bill just passed and a link to the Federal Register announcement on applications for the beneficial…
Welcome to our new WaterLog subscribers. This is an update of the scene here in DC – and it’s not pretty. We’re headed toward another shutdown deadline by Thursday midnight. The House Republican leadership will propose another short-term solution that won’t make it past Start in the Senate. There’s some hope the Senate will come…
Tonight’s State of the Union Address: For those of you plan to view the “SOTU” this evening, here’s what to be on the lookout for via Politico. Infrastructure Initiative: I tweeted the leaked Trump infrastructure plan last week and posted it on WaterLog. Much of the Federal money in the plan are focused in an…
On December 7th, the White House announced that it will release its long-awaited plan for a national infrastructure overhaul in early January. To be clear, the plan is not a complete bill, but instead will provide a 70-page framework from which Congress can build actual legislation. With details still to be made public, here’s what…
In this Update, we cover Infrastructure, can-kicking, benefit-cost-ratios, and a fresh face at the Assistant Secretary’s office. Plus new grant opportunities. The “I-word” makes its reappearance Now that the tax bill is just a giant step from being finished, the buzz about a major infrastructure initiative is getting new life. As much as the Nation…
Happy December and a warm welcome to our many new WaterLog subscribers!! Here’s the latest from your Nation’s Capital. With Senate passage of the tax bill, that chamber’s version will have to be reconciled with a somewhat different tax bill previously passed by the House. I mention this issue for two reasons., First, the future…