The Transportation Department will soon have to release its first name-and-shame list of federally funded projects that have ballooned a billion dollars over budget.
Language demanding the report was tucked into the major infrastructure bill Congress passed last year, and Sen. Joni Ernst, the Iowa Republican who put it there, said taxpayers deserve to know when things have gone that far awry.
The report will also cover projects getting Transportation Department money that have stretched five years behind schedule.
“Going a billion dollars over budget is not a rounding error and delays of five years or more are not inconsequential interruptions and should not be simply accepted as standard business practices, much less subsidized with blank checks from taxpayers,” Ms.