ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 23 -- Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, issued the following statement in reaction to the announcement that the Federal Transit Administration would award $75 million in increments through the Small Starts Program for the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project:

Previous federal budget uncertainty and initial application and design issues left funding in limbo for almost a year after funding was initially portrayed as a certainty in 2017.