Arizona airports are expected to receive at least $360 million over the next five years from Sinema’s bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law earlier this week
PHOENIX – Arizona senior Senator Kyrsten Sinema, along with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, and local leaders, toured Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to see first-hand the types of projects that will be funded through Sinema’s historic, bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act—which was signed into law earlier this week.
“Today’s Phoenix Sky Harbor tour with Secretary Buttigieg and Senator Kelly provided a chance to see first-hand the critical investments in our bipartisan infrastructure law to make Arizona’s airports safer and more convenient,” said Sinema, Chair of the Senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation Subcommittee, who led a Senate hearing on the infrastructure law’s aviation investments.
Sinema, Buttigieg, and Kelly toured the outside and inside facilities of Phoenix Sky Harbor’s future 8th concourse at Terminal 4, and walked around locations for future facilities, which will serve and facilitate transportation of thousands of people every day.
Sinema’s bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act law includes $25 billion in additional investments for aviation infrastructure. The bipartisan law provides $15 billion in priority projects at every airport in the United States, $5 billion in competitive grants for terminal development and other landslide projects, and $5 billion in grants for strengthening Air Traffic Control towers and infrastructure.
Earlier this year, as Chair of the Senate Aviaition Subcommittee, Sinema held a hearing highlighting the investments to aviation infrastructure that her bipartisan law makes, and stressed the need to invest in aviation infrastructure to ensure America’s airspace remains the safest and most reliable in the world.
Sinema’s legislation earned the support of The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, The National Association of Manufacturers, The AFL-CIO, The National Retail Federation, The Bipartisan Policy Center, North America’s Building Trades Unions, the Outdoor Industry Association, The American Hotel and Lodging Association, The National Education Association, as well as hundreds of mayors across all 50 states.
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