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Senate Budget Plan Calls for $90B Revenue Increase for HTF

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) released a five-year budget proposal that allows Congress to enact nearly $90 billion in new highway user taxes just to keep the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) solvent through 2024.

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Illinois Senate Introduces Bill to Double State Gas Tax

Senate bill would raise state gas tax by 19 cents per gallon to fund road and bridge repairs

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US DOT Announces Emergency Funding to Repair Roads in Tennessee, Ohio

Roads in these two states will receive federal funding to help manage repairs from historic weather events in 2019

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Five Key Takeaways from Trump's 2020 Budget

ARTBA President and CEO Dave Bauer says there are five key elements as the budget relates to transportation

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Report: Michigan Transportation Improvements Underway But More Funding Needed

Increased funding has allowed improvements to proceed but additional investment still need to improve conditions, relieve congestion and reduce costs to motorists of driving on congested, deficient roads, says TRIP report

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Five Ways Congress Can Fix the Highway Trust Fund

Better mileage and slower growth in miles traveled have combined to produce less revenue than Congress voted to spend. Here are some ideas to get the HTF fully funded.

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State Transportation Funding Legislation Ramping Up in 2019

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Legislators in 37 states have introduced 185 bills aimed at boosting transportation investment in the first two months of 2019

Highway Trust Fund Committee Discusses Infrastructure Needs

The House Ways & Means Committee, which oversees the Highway Trust Fund and all other federal tax issues, discussed the nation’s infrastructure problems for the first time under the chairmanship of Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA)

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DeFazio: Committee Considering Two-pronged Approach for Infrastructure Policy

House Transportation Leader Peter DeFazio says reauthorization of the 2015 FAST Act and crafting a long-term funding bill would take separate paths

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FY 2019 Spending Bills Finalized with Full FAST Act Funding

Signing averts a second government shutdown; here's a breakdown of how the $45.27 billion surface transportation construction funding is expected to be spent

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Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Senate Passes Spending Bill

White House confirms the president will sign a spending bill that doesn’t fund a border wall, and declare an emergency to take construct funds without Congressional approval

An LA Times graphic of apprehensions of people attempting illegal crossings of the southern US border since 2000 shows significant decline, raising the possibility that courts will question the president's declaration of national emergency.

Wall-Funding Scramble Keeps Trump Construction Promise in Question

‘Reprogramming’ funds from Corps of Engineers flood control, disaster relief from CA and PR, and military infrastructure likely to draw ‘firestorm’ of legal challenges

Construction crews staged material needed for the Santa Teresa Border Wall Replacement project near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry. The staging area also showcases a scaled down example of what the bollard style wall will look like.

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