Fiscal Year 2025 Federal Transportation Budget Links Page
This page provides links to documents relating to the fiscal 2025 federal transportation budget and is organized roughly chronologically.
Congressional Budget Office Annual Budget Outlook (Feb. 2024)
- Main document (The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034)
- Excel spreadsheet of all spending accounts in the budget baseline
- Excel spreadsheet of all revenue projections in the budget baseline, by category (Excise Taxes tab has transportation tax estimates)
- Baseline projection of Highway Trust Fund cash flow
- Baseline projections of Airport and Airway Trust Fund cash flow
President Biden’s Budget Request (Mar. 2024)
Office of Management and Budget/Treasury documents:
- Budget of the U.S. Government – 188 pages (contains Budget Message of the President, department-by-department highlights, summary tables)
- Appendix – 1,298 pages (contains proposed appropriations language and program and financing schedules for every budget account – the USDOT chapter by itself is here)
- Analytical Perspectives – 295 pages (contains special analyses including overall federal investment, aid to state and local governments, and trust fund projections), plus:
- Historical Tables – downloadable Excel spreadsheets providing all manner of historical budget comparisons.
- Federal Credit Supplement – 114 pages (detail of subsidy cost assumptions for all federal credit programs)
- Object Class Analysis – 88 pages (breakdown of department spending by object class (PC&B, contractual services and supplies, acquisition of assets, grants and fixed charges, and “other”)
- Balances of Budget Authority – 25-page PDF summary by agency, plus an Excel spreadsheet detailing unobligated balances by spending account
- Public Budget Database – account-level data dating back to 1976 (budget authority) and 1962 (outlays) – User’s Guide PDF, Budget Authority spreadsheet, Outlays spreadsheet, Revenues spreadsheet
- Climate Risk Analysis – 133 pages
- General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals – 256-page PDF text, revenue table in Excel format
Department of Transportation documents:
- Budget Highlights (76 pages)
- Detailed budget estimates for the Appropriations Committees:
- Federal Aviation Administration (621 pages)
- Federal Highway Administration (211 pages)
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (100 pages)
- Federal Railroad Administration (164 pages), together with Amtrak’s own (and very different) budget request and Amtrak’s updated 5-year asset and service line plan
- Federal Transit Administration (96 pages), together with the annual CIG report
- Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation (50 pages)
- Maritime Administration (168 pages)
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (106 pages)
- Office of Inspector General (46 pages)
- Office of the Secretary of Transportation (360 pages)
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (139 pages)
Department of Homeland Security documents:
- Budget in Brief (125 pages)
- Detailed budget estimates for the Appropriations Committees:
- Transportation Security Administration (363 pages)
- U.S. Coast Guard (320 pages)
Other budget justifications from agencies with accounts in the transportation budget function:
- Federal Maritime Commission (32 pages)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (806 pages – see “Aeronautics” budget account)
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation Office of Inspector General (34 pages)
- National Transportation Safety Board (165 pages)
- Surface Transportation Board (59 pages)
