Funding & Finance

Issues & Modes / Funding & Finance

Federal, state, and local governments all play a significant role in funding $300 billion in annual transportation spending. The federal government supplies important capital funding for highways, transit systems, airports, waterways, and ports while also operating the nation’s air traffic control system. State and local governments have an equally important task to invest in and operate their transportation networks and rely on a broad range of revenue sources, from general revenues and debt, to fuel taxes, fees, and tolls.

Rapid Response Webinar: Budgeting Time in 2024

Brimming with budget questions? Curious about cash flows? Then don't miss the latest in Eno's quality webinar series exploring...

Bipartisan Congress Likely to Reject Many of Biden’s Proposed DOT Changes

In broad strokes, the White House's fiscal 2024 budget request for the U.S. Department of Transportation is pretty simple: Get rid...

DOT Proposes Signing $19 Billion in FFGAs in FY24

Under the Biden Administration's proposed budget for fiscal 2024, this will be the year when all of the pre-Biden mass transit Capital...

Biden FY24 Budget Can’t Be Reconciled With House Plans

President Biden's proposed 2024 budget outline makes a lot of "big picture" proposals that go completely in the opposite direction that...

President Releases Budget Outline; Proposes More Priorities Shifting at DOT

Today, President Biden started the process of rolling out his fiscal 2024 budget request. But most of the fine print will not be...

ETW Exclusive: How Hundreds of Millions in Highway Funding Was Almost Lost Last Summer

Every year, the total amount of funding that can be legally obligated for expenditure by the federal-aid highway program is limited by...

Non-Defense Agencies Face Gruesome FY24 Budget Cycle Under House Plan

In last week's ETW, we pointed out that under the Congressional Budget Office's new baseline, the fiscal 2024 Transportation-HUD...

Annual Highway Trust Fund Forecast: Lower Tax Receipts; More Interest, but AATF In Better Shape

As part of its annual budget outlook update, the Congressional Budget Office this week released an updated 10-year projection of...

CBO Accelerates Prediction of Gas Tax Decline; Sees Recovery of Aviation Tax Base

As part of its annual budget outlook release this week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office updated its 10-year federal excise...

Projection Discretion is Advised: CBO Releases FY23 Transportation Funding Baseline

The new budget baseline from the Congressional Budget Office, released this week, sums up total funding provided by Congress for the...

How Do Federal Transportation Trust Funds Invest Their Money?

Last month, the Treasury Department overhauled the way it presents the data in its monthly reports on how it manages the 20 federal...

New CBO Budget Projections Are Bad News for THUD Appropriations

Buried in the supporting data of the new Congressional Budget Office Budget and Economic Outlook for the fiscal 2024 budget cycle...

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