Highway Trust Fund

On February 17, Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and panel of experts to...

This week, a group of senators introduced legislation to suspend the federal gas tax through December 2022 amid rising inflation. We estimate the...

Accounting for the enactment of the bipartisan infrastructure law (formally, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), we estimate the Highway...

In addition to new investments in surface transportation, transit, broadband, energy, water, tax breaks, and other transportation spending, the...

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing last month titled “Funding and Financing Options to Bolster American Infrastructure,” covering the need to...

The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee recently marked up and unanimously passed a bipartisan highway reauthorization bill. The bill...

Note: (2/4/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which includes new projections of...

A number of important federal programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through...

Several of the country’s most important trust funds are rapidly headed toward insolvency and will run out of reserves sooner than projected due to the...

Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) has introduced the Rebuild America Act, which would raise the excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel five...

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) recently introduced a discussion draft of legislation to improve the...