Yes, but this was all after Walker rejected 800 mil for fast Madison-Milwaukee service. At the time the feds were focusing on grants for faster service (a requirement that congress had stipulated in the grant agreements and something Wisconson's predecessor had requested), but something Walker was not interested in. It was really silly that he couldn't go with it and then work on the Hiawatha later (as it turned out the rejection didn't speed things up).
Actual facts Wrote:
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> Gov. Walker's administration continued to improve
> Amtrak's Chicago-Milwaukee corridor. These train
> sets were planned before he left office.
> Wisconsin has been negotiating for years with IL,
> CP, and the feds to get more frequencies in that
> corridor. Those efforts are stalled by IL
> politicians, mostly Democrat, bending over for
> rich NIMBY's in the northern Chicago suburbs.
>
> See page 6-2 for the station, signaling, and
> equipment projects in the WI 2019-2022 Statewide
> Transportation Improvement Program finished before
> Walker left office. It says all those projects
> had grant applications for Fed funding already
> submitted, programmed if awarded for FY2019.
>
> [
wisconsindot.gov]
> -gov/astnce-pgms/highway/stip/stip.pdf
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> The Milwaukee airport station 2nd platform grant
> was awarded in March 2019, just 2 months after
> Walker left office. The application was submitted
> long before then.