A downtown streetcar system linking Sacramento and West Sacramento would get a boost under the federal budget plan announced Monday for fiscal 2017. But the project may face a stiffer test in getting any federal dollars in budgets to come.
Under the 2017 omnibus deal, $50 million would be allocated for building a streetcar system that would run between midtown Sacramento and downtown West Sacramento, with stops including Golden 1 Center, Raley Field and the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium.
That…