Muni Lowdown: MTA maelstrom

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is poised to make “draconian” measures to bridge a pandemic-driven USD 12bn budget gap that could throw the agency into bankruptcy without federal intervention, MTA officials said during an emergency board meeting. Debtwire Municipals' Chuck Stanley discusses the scenario. The bankrupt Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's potential agreement with the US Federal Emergency Management Authority, which could make billions of federal dollars available to rebuild the island's ailing power grid, is still very much up in the air, Efran Paredes, the utility's new executive director, said in an interview with Debtwire Municipals' Eva Llorens. Yong Lim, the Debtwire Municipals desk editor, is the moderator of the podcast. The Muni Lowdown is a weekly podcast recapping the previous week's significant news developments in the municipal bond market. For comments or questions contact [email protected]