Highway Trust Fund

Note: (2/4/2022): This analysis is now out of date.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

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that three major trust funds will deplete their reserves within the next ten years, with a fourth exhausting...

Congressional negotiators this week released a conference agreement on highway spending authorization that will largely settle the issue of highway...

As the House and Senate are conferencing their highway bills, a debate has broken out over how to spend the $78 billion of offsets. Setting aside the...

According to a new Department of Transportation (DOT) estimate, the Highway Trust Fund will likely last until late next summer instead of at the end...

The three-month highway law that passed last month was intended to buy time for a more lasting solution for the Highway Trust Fund's finances, so it...

We commended the Senate last week for seeking a long-term solution to the highway funding shortfall and for funding its proposal with real offsets...

The Senate is discussing a bill that would reauthorize highway programs for six years and provide $47.6 billion of funding to cover the Highway Trust...