“Communities with high birth and marriage rates could soon gain an advantage in securing federal transit money — a long-sought goal of the Trump administration but one that a top Democratic appropriator calls ‘bizarre and dystopian,'” Politico reports.

“The Trump administration ended its latest effort to block federal funding for the $16 billion Gateway tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey, dropping an appeal of a court ruling against the U.S,” Bloomberg reports.

“The government agreed to dismiss its challenge to a June ruling by a federal judge who said that withholding funds from the project ‘flagrantly’ violates the law.”

“The Federal Aviation Administration announced on Monday that it will close Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington to flight traffic for three hours later this month, to accommodate the Trump administration’s planned IndyCar grand prix on the National Mall,” the New York Times reports.

“In contrast to some of President Donald Trump’s previous construction projects around the nation’s capital, his plan to renovate Washington Dulles International Airport received widespread praise here, along with sighs of relief,” NBC News reports.

“The airport became less known for its design awards than for its mode of transporting passengers to the concourses and their gates: mobile lounges, commonly called people movers and frequently derided as slow, overcrowded and inefficient.”

“President Donald Trump on Wednesday is set to announce a sweeping plan to remake Dulles International Airport, including building new terminals and doing away with the airport’s long-criticized shuttles,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump has spent months considering how to overhaul the airport, hearing pitches in the Oval Office from rival construction and design firms and looking at mock-up designs. Under his plan, the current underground train would be fully built out to take passengers to their terminals — rather than relying on the airport’s shuttles, nicknamed ‘people movers’ — and five terminals would be built to replace the four existing ones.”

“For decades, the federal government has funneled big-ticket grants to local communities to help them take on ambitious construction projects to expand public transit. The grants, sometimes in the billions of dollars, have funded new railroad tracks, train stations and roads rebuilt for modern bus service. Today, they’re funding extensions of the Second Avenue Subway in New York and the Red Line in Chicago, as well as the Gateway Tunnel under the Hudson River and bus infrastructure in Indianapolis and San Antonio,” the New York Times reports.

“But since President Trump returned to office, the Federal Transit Administration has not signed a single new agreement under the program, known as Capital Investment Grants. Large projects ready to enter the final phase of the program’s yearslong pipeline have stalled there. The administration also tried halting payments to the New York and Chicago projects, forcing courts to intervene.”

“As the number of pending projects builds up, so has anxiety about the federal government’s support for major transit infrastructure. Money that Congress designated for that purpose is accumulating too: More than $7 billion hasn’t been obligated to any project.”

“Donald Trump has cleared the way for the opening of a $4.5bn bridge between Canada and Michigan 13 years after the project’s inception, claiming he had secured a better deal from the other side,” the Financial Times reports.

“The Gordie Howe International Bridge is now expected to open on July 27 after the U.S. president dropped his objections to the project.”

CBS News: Gordie Howe Bridge connecting Detroit, Canada expected to open by end of July.