The more than $30 million for Sixth Street reconstruction that President Joe Biden touted last year on a trip to Milwaukee is no more.
The funds, part of a neighborhood access and equity grant program, were rescinded as part of the Trump administration’s tax cut and spending bill adopted by Republicans in Congress. All Republicans in Wisconsin’s congressional delegation voted in favor.
“This project would have made a high-injury traffic corridor safer, created over 450 good-paying jobs, and created tens-of-millions of dollars in local economic impacts,” Mayor Cavalier Johnson said in a statement July 7.
Biden highlighted the federal money while he was still in the race for the White House last year.
He spoke at the Pieper-Hillside Boys & Girls Club, at the corner of North Sixth Street and West Cherry Street, promoting the allocation for a project to convert a 2.6-mile section of Sixth Street to a “complete street.”
Lawrence Andrea of the Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.
Alison Dirr can be reached at adirr@jrn.com.
This story is developing and will be updated.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee loses $30M in federal funds for 6th Street under Trump bill