{"id":6867,"date":"2021-12-21T16:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:40:35","slug":"no-mass-transit-grants-for-california-biden-administration-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6867","title":{"rendered":"No Mass Transit Grants for California, Biden Administration Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;the U.S. Department of Labor has denied California $12 billion in transit funding, including grants from the recently signed infrastructure bill. The reason? A 1964 federal law requires the labor department to certify that the state agencies seeking any mass-transit grants are &#8220;protecting the interests of any affected employees,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>The Fresno Bee<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/article255720896.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the Biden administration is claiming that California\u2014the state that provides its public employees with unparalleled pay and pension benefits, and provides collective-bargaining rights unheard of anywhere else\u2014is being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgpEVzCUr3s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mean<\/a>&nbsp;to its &#8220;affected&#8221; public employees because the state passed a 2013 law, authored by Democrats, that infinitesimally reined in pension benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As SFist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2021\/11\/16\/biden-picks-first-major-fight-with-california-holds-back-billions-in-transit-funding-over-pension-dispute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">summarized<\/a>, &#8220;Biden is withholding giant amounts of federal money from California public transit because the state&#8217;s public-employee pension system is apparently not paying people&nbsp;enough.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AusslCVRtp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/11\/26\/biden-administration-says-california-cant-qualify-for-new-infrastructure-grants\/\">No Mass Transit Grants for California, Biden Administration Rules<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;No Mass Transit Grants for California, Biden Administration Rules&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/11\/26\/biden-administration-says-california-cant-qualify-for-new-infrastructure-grants\/embed\/#?secret=BuvGU9ubze#?secret=AusslCVRtp\" data-secret=\"AusslCVRtp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the U.S. Department of Labor has denied California $12 billion in transit funding, including grants from the recently signed infrastructure bill. The reason? A 1964 federal law requires the labor department to certify that the state agencies seeking any mass-transit grants are &#8220;protecting the interests of any affected employees,&#8221; The Fresno Bee reported.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Biden administration is claiming that California\u2014the state that provides its public employees with unparalleled pay and pension benefits, and provides collective-bargaining rights unheard of anywhere else\u2014is being mean to its &#8220;affected&#8221; public employees because the state passed a 2013 law, authored by Democrats, that infinitesimally reined in pension benefits.<\/p>\n<p>As SFist summarized, &#8220;Biden is withholding giant amounts of federal money from California public transit because the state&#8217;s public-employee pension system is apparently not paying people enough.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[215,375,304,709,1193,1247,735,279,877],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-benefits","tag-biden","tag-california","tag-federalism","tag-government-spending","tag-infrastructure","tag-pension","tag-spending","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}