Issues & Modes / Funding & Finance
Congress Still Can’t Leave Without Dealing with Debt Limit
Dec 03, 2021 | Jeff DavisWhile Congress has now extended the annual appropriations deadline into next February, there is still no clear path in sight for...
Appropriations Stopgap Extended to Feb. 18, Delaying Some Infrastructure Funding Increases
Dec 03, 2021 | Jeff DavisGood news: the government shutdown that was possibly to have started tonight has been averted, thanks to legislation passed by Congress...
Biden Signs Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Into Law
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff DavisAfter a festive November 15 ceremony, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill (the Infrastructure Investment and...
The States Benefiting the Most From the Infrastructure Deal
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff Davis“The formula story is a ridiculous, yet sad one,” says Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, a...
How the House spending bill funds additional infrastructure
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe five years of funding in the infrastructure law, as tallied by Jeff Davis, would flow to states and be shaped by local needs,...
List of FY21 RAISE Grants (Capital Only)
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff DavisThis is a PDF of a spreadsheet listing all 63 RAISE grants for capital projects for fiscal year 2021, alpha by state postal code,...
CBO Warns $2.2 Billion in BBB’s Transit, High-Speed Rail Funding Will Never Be Spent
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff DavisAs part of the process of scoring the omnibus budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 5376, a.k.a. Build Back Better, or BBB), the nonpartisan...
House Passes Scaled-Down, $1.9 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Bill, 220-213
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff DavisThis morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 5376, the "Build Back Better Act") by a...
Infrastructure Act Focus Shifts to Rolling Out the Funds
Nov 18, 2021 | Jeff DavisJeff Davis, Eno Center for Transportation senior fellow, says that $59 billion in apportioned 2022 highway funding—up $13.8 billion,...
How Much Will the Infrastructure Bill Really Add to the Deficit?
Nov 17, 2021 | Jeff DavisWhen the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office scored the bipartisan infrastructure bill that President Biden signed into law this...
Highway “Donor States” R.I.P.
Nov 16, 2021 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden's signature on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act yesterday will open the financial floodgates on a total of...
Biden Signs $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Into Law
Nov 15, 2021 | Jeff DavisState transportation agencies will likely see the first infusion of highway funds from the infrastructure package by the beginning of...