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.
January 31, 2019 - The new CBO budget forecast allows us to estimate how much money would be raised by...
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January 25, 2019 -President Trump today reversed course and agreed to sign a short-term continuing appropriations resolution reopening the federal...
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January 25, 2019 - As the partial lapse-of-appropriations government shutdown gets ready to enter its fifth week – and with...
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January 25, 2019 - The Congressional Budget Office will release its annual Budget and Economic Outlook on Monday, January 28....
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January 23, 2019 - The all-too-regular budgetary shenanigans highlight once again that the nation's aviation system should not be subject...
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January 24, 2019 - Tens of thousands of members of the U.S. Coast Guard continue to go without pay while...
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January 25, 2019 - Both the spending and revenue sides of the federal-aid highway program are very carbon-centric. Is the...
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January 22, 2019 - Late last night, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Richard Shelby (R-AL), released the text of...
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January 18, 2019 - The House and Senate have left town for the week, and Monday will mark the one-month...
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January 18, 2019 - As Reuters first reported, high-level meetings were held at the White House this week to discuss...
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Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...