And, if I got it right.... The Trump Admin's Infrastructure Bill proposes take money away from Amtrak.
Funding, according to the plan, will be dramatically increased with local, state, and private funds. Decreased at the federal level.
The idea being to more efficiently allocate funds, since many cities have long complained about funding infrastructure, despite having no rail service.. Ie Vegas, Arizona, Columbus, Nashville, etc. verses northeast corridor.
The idea is good, but I am 100% confident that its dead-on-arrival since DC is worthless, and incapable of doing simple tasks. Oh, we will get hearings, and committees about the issue. So they can brush off questions to say "answers will come at the end of the study" hoping people have forgotten by then.