President-elect Donald Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure investment proposal is no more than “massive tax breaks to large companies” that would miss on long-term benefits for the economy, former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said this week.

President-elect Donald Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure investment proposal he plans to advance during the first 100 days of his administration will be considered with an open mind by Senate Democrats, the Democratic leader in the upper chamber said over the weekend.

The advancement of autonomous trucks and cars would dramatically improve safety and reduce congestion along key freight corridors nationwide, the transportation funding leaders in the Senate said Nov. 16.

Before leaving town for Thanksgiving, House Speaker Paul Ryan reaffirmed his stance that federal regulators relax their rulemaking until the start of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

Just in time to avoid the swamp draining of Washington, D.C., that President-elect Donald Trump has promised, members of Congress return to Capitol Hill this week for what looks to be a brief and uneventful lame duck.

WASHINGTON — Enhancing transportation technologies and establishing partnerships with investors to finance large-scale infrastructure projects are ideal ways for cash-strapped cities to boost their economies, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett told a group of transportation observers here Nov. 14.

The U.S. House will be prepared to craft legislation next year that would provide long-term infrastructure funding for freight and commuter corridors around the country, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Nov. 13.

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s win, trucking and transportation industry executives saw the president-elect’s bullish interest in modernizing the country’s infrastructure as a glass-half-full.

The re-election of senior Republicans on Nov. 8, solidifying the party’s control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, is expected to help Republicans unify the divisions within their party and approve a long-term funding fix for freight infrastructure projects next year, the incumbent lawmakers and GOP leaders said.

After nearly losing his seat in the Republican primary earlier this year, Rep. Bill Shuster, the top transportation policymaker in the U.S. House, was easily re-elected to a ninth term.