Highway Trust Fund
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CBO Updates Major Trust Fund Baselines
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its projections last week on the financial status of the major trust funds for Medicare Hospital...
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Can a Carbon Tax Fund Climate Investments?
Read moreThough the Senate will not consider the House-passed Build Back Better Act (BBB), there has been some discussion of reviving the legislation’s climate...
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Maya MacGuineas: Say no to a gas tax holiday
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Event Recap: Trust Fund Solutions
Read moreOn 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...
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Gas Tax Holiday Would Take A Wrong Turn
Read moreThe White House and some in Congress are reportedly considering suspending the 18.3 cent federal gas tax for the remainder of 2022. The Committee for...
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Gas Tax Holiday Would Cost $20 Billion
Read moreThis week, a group of senators introduced legislation to suspend the federal gas tax through December 2022 amid rising inflation. We estimate the...
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Ten Options to Secure the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreAccounting for the enactment of the bipartisan infrastructure law (formally, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), we estimate the Highway...
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The Infrastructure Bill’s Impact on the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreIn addition to new investments in surface transportation, transit, broadband, energy, water, tax breaks, and other transportation spending, the...
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Senate Finance Committee Hearing Highlights Need to Secure Highway Trust Fund
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee held a hearing last month titled “Funding and Financing Options to Bolster American Infrastructure,” covering the need to...
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Bipartisan Senate Highway Bill Needs Offsets
Read moreThe Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee recently marked up and unanimously passed a bipartisan highway reauthorization bill. The bill...
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ARCHIVE: Ten Options to Secure the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreNote: (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...
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Major Trust Funds Headed for Insolvency Within 11 Years
Read moreA number of important federal programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through...