It remains to be seen whether it'll prompt a national transportation policy dialogue, represent the beginning of the end of intercity rail as we've known it the past 35 years or serve as the first salvo in the annual "What-are-we-gonna-do-about-Amtrak?" funding battle. But the Bush Administration's proposed fiscal-year 2006 budget includes the strongest presidential message in years regarding the fate of the national passenger rail system: No reform, no funding — the first no-money-for-Amtrak budget since FY1991 (see page 13). By omitting Amtrak from the budget, "the White House has done us all a favor," says former Amtrak Reform Council Chairman Gil Carmichael, who served as federal railroad administrator under President George H. Bush.
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机译：是否会促进全国交通政策对话，代表我们过去35年来所知的城际铁路终结的开始，还是作为年度“我们是什么？ -去做关于Amtrak的事吗？”资金之战。但是布什政府提出的2006财政年度预算提案中包含了多年来关于国家铁路系统命运的最强烈的总统信息：没有改革，就没有资金-这是1991财年以来的第一笔无资金购买安特拉克铁路的预算（请参阅第13页） 。前美国铁路改革委员会主席吉尔·卡迈克尔（Gil Carmichael）曾在总统乔治·布什（George H. Bush）任职期间担任联邦铁路管理人，他说，通过从预算中省掉美铁（Amtrak），“白宫给了我们所有人一个好处。”
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