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Re: How States and Cities Are Adapting to Changing Administration Discretionary Grant Rules
Author: How to troll AP, The commie2 way.
Date: 07-03-2025 - 19:15
Chico Wrote:
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> More commie trash. Wrote:
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> -----
> > Commenter Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Yes it affects rail, and a whole bunch of
> other
> > > stuff too.
> > >
> > >
> >
> [enotrans.org]
>
> >
> > >
> >
> -are-adapting-to-changing-trump-administration-gra
>
> >
> > > nt-rules/
> >
> > "discretionary grant", idiot.
> >
> > Discretionary Grant
> > A grant (or cooperative agreement) for which
> the
> > federal awarding agency generally may select
> the
> > recipient from among all eligible recipients,
> may
> > decide to make or not make an award based on
> the
> > programmatic, technical, or scientific content
> of
> > an application and can decide the amount of
> > funding to be awarded.
>
> What is this supposed the mean? How does this
> relate to "More commie trash"?
>
> Grants are made on a discretionary basis, only in
> the selection and award, not after they have been
> awarded, and there is a "contract" for the
> execution of that grant and use of the funds
> awarded.
>
> These projects are funded by grant "contracts"
> known as full funding agreements with the
> respective DOT Federal funding agency (FTA, FRA,
> FHWA, and the FAA). These agreements then allow
> the agencies to incur costs for the project, that
> will be matched by the Federal share, after the
> States have paid out, through reimbursement for
> the Federal share of the expenditures.
>
> Stuff that has not been awarded and does not have
> a full funding agreement, can be held.
>
> Congress can vote to rescind the funding for a
> previously funded project. Which has just
> happened. And, that has happened before, but not
> often, and almost never has been done if there is
> a full funding agreement in place with the State
> and the local agency recipient.
>
> But blowing off the grant contracts you have
> already made merely at the "disretionary"
> political whimsy of the Executive Branch
> (impoundment) is still not permitted by any
> statute or court decision I've heard of, at least
> as of yet...
>
> There were actually even Federal grant and
> contracting courses they offer CEU's in, through
> the USDOT, that even regular folks could take at
> one time, which may still be offered. Look on-line
> at USDOT for that sort of thing.
>
> Meanwhile, it's not going to be dull for the folks
> who have to deal with this mess.
I see you were so smart not to read commie's link.
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> More commie trash. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Commenter Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Yes it affects rail, and a whole bunch of
> other
> > > stuff too.
> > >
> > >
> >
> [enotrans.org]
>
> >
> > >
> >
> -are-adapting-to-changing-trump-administration-gra
>
> >
> > > nt-rules/
> >
> > "discretionary grant", idiot.
> >
> > Discretionary Grant
> > A grant (or cooperative agreement) for which
> the
> > federal awarding agency generally may select
> the
> > recipient from among all eligible recipients,
> may
> > decide to make or not make an award based on
> the
> > programmatic, technical, or scientific content
> of
> > an application and can decide the amount of
> > funding to be awarded.
>
> What is this supposed the mean? How does this
> relate to "More commie trash"?
>
> Grants are made on a discretionary basis, only in
> the selection and award, not after they have been
> awarded, and there is a "contract" for the
> execution of that grant and use of the funds
> awarded.
>
> These projects are funded by grant "contracts"
> known as full funding agreements with the
> respective DOT Federal funding agency (FTA, FRA,
> FHWA, and the FAA). These agreements then allow
> the agencies to incur costs for the project, that
> will be matched by the Federal share, after the
> States have paid out, through reimbursement for
> the Federal share of the expenditures.
>
> Stuff that has not been awarded and does not have
> a full funding agreement, can be held.
>
> Congress can vote to rescind the funding for a
> previously funded project. Which has just
> happened. And, that has happened before, but not
> often, and almost never has been done if there is
> a full funding agreement in place with the State
> and the local agency recipient.
>
> But blowing off the grant contracts you have
> already made merely at the "disretionary"
> political whimsy of the Executive Branch
> (impoundment) is still not permitted by any
> statute or court decision I've heard of, at least
> as of yet...
>
> There were actually even Federal grant and
> contracting courses they offer CEU's in, through
> the USDOT, that even regular folks could take at
> one time, which may still be offered. Look on-line
> at USDOT for that sort of thing.
>
> Meanwhile, it's not going to be dull for the folks
> who have to deal with this mess.
I see you were so smart not to read commie's link.
