May 10, 2019 – As part of preparations for Infrastructure Week 2019, it’s worth looking at how a proposed $2 trillion infrastructure spending total would compare to past and present federal spending on infrastructure (however you want to define it).
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May 10, 2019 – If you were to try to find “pay-fors” to fund a $2 trillion infrastructure spending plan, what would those pay-fors look like?
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May 3, 2019 – In 1947-48, the “Hoover Commission” outsourced its analysis of government to outside task forces, which often contradicted each other. The Brookings Institution recommended creation of a Department of Transportation, but Robert Moses recommended a Department of Works instead.
May 3, 2019 – President Trump has nominated John Kramer to be Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
May 3, 2019 – This week, the bipartisan leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced a bill (H.R. 2440) that would allow the immediate spend-down of $9.3 billion in balances that have built up in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF).
May 2, 2019 – The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released updated baseline budget projections for the ongoing fiscal year 2019 and the ten-year period of fiscal 2020-2029. The new baseline estimates that the cost of keeping the Highway Trust Fund solvent at baseline spending levels (FY 2019 enacted levels plus annual inflation increases of around 2 percent per year) has risen to about $176 billion, which is about $12 billion higher than the $164 billion that CBO projected in its January 2019 preliminary baseline.