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CBO Scores FY21 Budget Request, Including Trump Infrastructure Plan
Apr 02, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Congressional Budget Office on March 30 released its re-estimate of the President's budget request for fiscal year 2021, including...
Treasury Releases Annual Trust Fund Forecasts
Mar 12, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis week, the Treasury Department released its quarterly Treasury Bulletin for March 2020 – a deep dive of fiscal data that includes...
Rapid Response Webinar: The President’s Infrastructure Plan and the FY21 Budget
Feb 12, 2020 | Madeline GormanOn February 10, 2020, the Trump Administration released its fiscal 2021 budget request, which includes a ten-year, $810 billion surface...
Webinar: Reforming America’s Transportation System
Oct 24, 2019 | Karen PriceTransportation governance is a growing issue for modern transportation. State departments of transportation, transit agencies,...
Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
Oct 02, 2019 | Karen PriceEach year, more than $45 billion in annual Federal highway funding today is distributed to states based on real-world metrics from...
CBO To Release Updated HTF Forecast August 21
Aug 16, 2019 | Jeff DavisThe Congressional Budget Office is scheduled to release its annual summer update to its Budget and Economic Outlook on August...
After Highway Bill Markup, Still No Path Forward on Finding Revenue
Aug 01, 2019 | Jeff DavisThe July 30 markup of the highway reauthorization bill by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee left stakeholders with a...
Senate EPW Committee Approves 5-Year Highway Bill
Jul 30, 2019 | Jeff DavisThis morning, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved, by a 23 to 0 vote, a five-year highway program...
Summary of S. 2302, America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019. As Reported from Committee
Jul 30, 2019 | Jeff DavisUpdated August 1 Assembled by Paul Lewis, Alice Grossman, Christopher Oster, and Jeff Davis of the staff of the Eno Center for...
New CBO Study Summarizes Federal “Investment” Spending
Jun 27, 2019 | Jeff DavisToday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued a new report entitled Federal Investment, 1962 to 2018. To some extent,...
Senate Republicans Make Earmark Ban Permanent
May 24, 2019 | Jeff DavisMay 24, 2019 At a closed-door caucus meeting yesterday, Senate Republicans voted to make permanent their ban on allowing any of...
Senate Presses Secretary of Transportation on FAA Certification and FY20 Budget Requests
Mar 28, 2019 | Alice GrossmanMarch 28, 2019 The Senate subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies held a hearing on...