Highway Trust Fund

In July, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that federal debt held by the public would nearly double as a share of the economy over three...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its projections last week on the financial status of the major trust funds for Medicare Hospital...

Maya 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...

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...

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Note: (2/4/2022): This analysis is now out of date.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...