WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- President Obama chided Congress Thursday for waiting until the last moment to pass crucial funding for transportation projects and announced a new initiative to put more of those projects in the hands of private partners.
Obama applauded the imminent passage of an $11 billion patch for the Highway Trust Fund that will keep the program from running out of money in August and support more than 100,000 transportation projects around the country. own.