The House version of this year’s mega surface transportation reauthorization bill could increase the deficit anticipated in ...

Congress is inching ever closer to the edge of insolvency for the Highway Trust Fund. On Thursday afternoon the House rejected the Senate’s bill to patch the Fund into December and sent its original ...

The federal government has been writing itself IOUs to fund America's highways for nearly two decades. The bill comes due in 2028. That's the year the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects the ...

Discussions about the insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) have been happening since the early 2000s, and I wrote in 2023 how the booming EV market was going to make matters worse. While several ...

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders introduced a highway reauthorization bill May 17 proposing new registration fees for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Eno Center ...

Farm and shipping groups are generally happy with a House bill to reauthorize a slate of surface transportation programs, but trucking weight limits and rail safety measures remain points of ...

Now that the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has passed, one of the things Congress is turning its attention to is highway funding. Ad Loading... With a fall 2026 deadline for a new ...

Congress and the "Highway Trust Fund" a federal fund that currently finances over 100,000 projects across the country. How can the funds be replenished to keep the construction projects going?

Whether North Dakotans are delivering crops to the local elevator or loading the family into a minivan for a road trip, well-maintained roads are essential. At the center of it all is the National ...

Warning signs are flashing for America's already-decaying highway infrastructure as a key transportation fund quickly runs out of cash. The Highway Trust Fund (HTF), which funds roads, bridges, and ...

Devolution models have been explored by Congress in the past but have never advanced into law. Proposals to start the process were launched in 1996 and 2009 but didn't gain traction. The growth of ...