Highway Trust Fund News Updates

Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito said the panel is crafting legislation aimed at improving safety and reliability across the nation’s transportation network.

The Eisenhower-era account, which helps states pay for infrastructure maintenance, will be central to upcoming votes on the highway reauthorization measure.

Transportation groups are coalescing around familiar priorities: safety, stable highway funding and efficient integration of emerging technologies.

Key transportation priorities have remained sidelined with lawmakers deadlocked in a funding standoff over the Department of Homeland Security.

Policymakers in the House of Representatives will prioritize traditional surface transportation projects when they kick off negotiations on a multiyear highway policy bill.

House Republicans recently took a major step in their quest to approve as early as this month a comprehensive tax and budget measure supported by the Trump White House.

The emergency funding aims to expedite recovery in North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina, which are grappling with widespread destruction left by Hurricane Helene.

AASHTO reiterated concern as to the time frame over FHWA's annual redistribution of unspent highway funds among states and the states lacking time to allocate the money.

Transportation leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives recently raised awareness about the funding needs of an account central to highway projects.

Legislation to ensure electric vehicles contribute to a federal highway funding account was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate.