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Republicans established the fund to ease pressure on rural providers facing Medicaid and ACA insurance cuts.

How Congress and the Trump administration navigate the next several months carries implications for municipal issuers and investors.

An SEC investigation "is not a litigation," said Kathleen Marcus, a partner at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth.

Advocates have floated similar measures repeatedly over the course of several administrations with no luck.

The administration wants the project "to be a model of how to build quickly and cost effectively," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

All of fiscal 2025 was funded under continuing appropriations instead of the traditional appropriations process.

A congressional budget impasse is leading toward a stopgap funding measure via a continuing resolution which could solve a budget shortage in the District of Columbia.

The House oversight subcommittee hearing was titled "Virtue Signaling vs. Vital Services."

Bond attorneys are eyeballing the possibility of attaching a tax title to the surface transportation reauthorization that could include issues of great interest to the municipal bond community as the appropriations process remains stuck in first gear.

Infrastructure like vertiports may be financed with municipal bonds.