Federal budget ignores Savannah Harbor project – Atlanta Business Chronicle

There’s no construction money for the Savannah Harbor deepening in the federal budget President Barack Obama released Tuesday, prompting Georgia’s two senators to charge the White House with failing to keep its promises.

During a tour of the Port of Savannah last September, Vice President Joe Biden called for expediting port improvements at Savannah and other U.S. ports along the Atlantic coast “come hell or high water.”

But when the fiscal 2015 budget plan came out Tuesday, all it contained for the $652 million project was $1 million for further study.

“We are deeply disappointed and frustrated,” Republican U.S. Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson,” wrote in a joint statement. “It is baffling to see this administration choose to ignore a statute passed just six weeks ago that cleared all remaining obstructions to moving forward with the project.

“This administration has promised to deliver economic development and economic opportunity to the state of Georgia. … It is now clear they would rather pay lip service to Georgians than to deliver on their promises.”

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