Highway Trust Fund

Energy and Environment

States raise registration fees for electric vehicles due to missed gas tax

Elaine Mallon · January 27, 2025 4:14 pm

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says the coronavirus relief agreement no longer contains $3 billion to fulfill President Trumpâs order to buy low-priced oil to restock the nationâs emergency Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Senate scrounges together 30-day highway funding extension

Carly Roman · October 2, 2021 6:07 pm

Pete Buttigieg walks back comments about gas tax increase

Jeremy Lott · January 29, 2021 4:00 am

The Davis-Bacon Act may present challenges to Biden’s infrastructure plans

Jeremy Lott · January 8, 2021 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Taxpayers get the shaft with New York's crazy expensive subway elevators

David Ditch · October 14, 2019 7:01 pm

Subsidize electric vehicles more, or not at all?

Diana Stancy Correll · April 26, 2019 4:00 am

FILE - This April 14, 2014 file photo shows a section of the I-75 Phase II modernization project under way in Dayton, Ohio. The Senate is set to take up legislation to keep federal highway money flowing to states, with just three days left before the government plans to start slowing down payments. The House passed a $10.8 billion bill last week that would pay for highway and transit aid through the end of May 2015 if transportation spending is maintained at current levels. Under a schedule outlined by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., the Senate would take up that bill Tuesday. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson, File)

Road to infrastructure package begins with permanent Highway Trust Fund fix

Dave Bauer · February 15, 2019 11:00 am

Domino’s Pizza offers local road-repair funding as Congress dawdles

Joe Williams · June 11, 2018 8:13 pm

Here’s a Deal Trump Doesn’t Love

Fred Barnes · March 9, 2018 6:50 am

"The president has not declared anything out of bounds. Everything is on the table," Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao told reporters at the White House on Tuesday regarding a potential raise in the gas tax. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Gas tax increase ‘on the table,’ Elaine Chao says

Sean Higgins · February 13, 2018 8:52 pm

Trump said the trucking industry would support raising the 18-cent tax on gasoline and 24-cent tax on diesel "if we earmarked money toward the highways." (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Energy and Environment

Trump open to raising gas tax

John Siciliano · May 1, 2017 6:18 pm

How Conservatives Should Approach Infrastructure Spending

Yuval Levin · January 11, 2017 3:30 pm