President Obama released his FY2011 budget today, and it includes the $150 million federal match for WMATA capital needs.

Here’s the budget (large PDF, faster Google Viewer). The item is on the page marked 981, which is page 57 of this document.

Last year’s budget didn’t include the money at first, and area Congressional leaders pushed to add it after the crash. I heard this was an oversight rather than an intentional omission from the new administration.

Streetsblog Capitol Hill dissected more of the budget. It contains sustainability and high-speed rail money, including a rebranded infrastructure bank with $4 billion. It also cuts some programs that tend to be allocated by Congressional earmarks instead of a more objective or executive branch-based process.

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.