Biden Signs 30-Day Highway Funding Extension, Ensuring 3,700 Employees Won't Be Furloughed

Newsweek BY CHRISTINA ZHAO October 2, 2021

President Joe Biden signed a 30-day extension of the Highway Trust Fund into law Saturday afternoon, ensuring that nearly 4,000 federal employees won't be furloughed amid the Democratic stalemate over the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. The transportation funding for road and transit projects, included in the stalled "hard" infrastructure bill, expired Thursday after Democratic leaders failed to unify their fractured caucus to pass the measure. The House voted late Friday to approve the one-month extension, before the Senate passed it earlier Saturday, ending the furlough for an estimated 3,700 Department of Transportation employees.

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