With the federal fiscal year ending September 30th and members of Congress largely back home for reelection campaigns, several transportation infrastructure projects and coronavirus relief packages are at risk of failing if they don’t receive federal funds, Roll Call reports.

Highway construction and repair projects will be forced to end.  City public transportation like bus and subway systems will be forced to significantly cut routes or even end services.  And airlines have announced that they will undertake significant layoffs as well as eliminate flights to less populated areas.

With the stalemate in negotiations between the White House and Democratic Congressional leaders, funds to continue those projects are tied to the coronavirus relief bill. 

In the Democratic bill, passed by the House in May, the federal government would provide $30 billion to state departments of transportation and to local transit systems.  The Senate never passed a relief bill, and the proposal put out by the White House would provide only $10 billion to local airport authorities.

Many have noted that coronavirus relief has wide bipartisan support but there’s insufficient support from some arms of the republican Party to pass extended aid.

“I’m angry,” Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, told Roll Call. “There is incredible agreement on Capitol Hill, yet we can’t get to a deal.”