Federal, state, and local governments all play a significant role in funding $300 billion in annual transportation spending. The federal government supplies important capital funding for highways, transit systems, airports, waterways, and ports while also operating the nation’s air traffic control system. State and local governments have an equally important task to invest in and operate their transportation networks and rely on a broad range of revenue sources, from general revenues and debt, to fuel taxes, fees, and tolls.

Senate Pulls Weekend Session on Budget, Sets May 9 as Tax Bill Deadline

Apr 4, 2025 | Jeff Davis
April 4, 2025 - The Senate will vote this weekend on a new budget plan calling for $5.2 trillion in...

Trump Cancels $2.96 Billion in New Appropriations – Perhaps Not Legally

Mar 28, 2025 | Jeff Davis
March 28, 2025 - President Trump this week tried a different tack and attempted to cancel nearly $3 billion in...

OMB Releases Official Score of Year-Long CR

Mar 28, 2025 | Jeff Davis
March 28, 2025 - The Office of Management and Budget has announced the final spending totals contained in the year-long...

The FY25 Year-Long CR: What’s in It, and What’s Not

Mar 14, 2025 | Jeff Davis
March 14, 2025 - What's in the FY 2025 year-long CR and what's not?

House Passes FY25 Year-Long CR; Ball Now in Senate’s Court

Mar 11, 2025 | Jeff Davis
March 11, 2025 - The House of Representatives has passed H.R. 1968, the year-long continuing appropriations legislation, by a narrow...

House to Vote on Year-Long CR Next Week as Senators Prepare Plan B

Mar 7, 2025 | Jeff Davis
March 7, 2025 - The House is scheduled to vote next Tuesday on a full-year stopgap continuing resolution funding the...

FY25 Update: Still No More “Donor States”

Mar 7, 2025 | Jeff Davis
March 7, 2025 - There were once places called “donor states” that paid more money in taxes into the Highway...

Americans Drove 1.0 Percent More in 2024

Mar 6, 2025 | Jeff Davis
March 6, 2025 - The total amount of driving done in the U.S. increased 1.0 percent in 2024 over the...

Appropriators Now Working Towards Year-Long FY25 CR As Deadline Approaches

Feb 28, 2025 | Jeff Davis
February 28, 2025 - With a government shutdown deadline pending on March 14 and negotiations on actual appropriations bills going...

DOT Tries Canceling NYC Congestion Pricing and California High-Speed Rail

Feb 21, 2025 | Jeff Davis
February 20, 2025 - This week, the Trump Administration took steps to cancel two of the largest transportation experiments in...

FY25 Full-Year CR Is Increasingly Likely

Feb 14, 2025 | Jeff Davis
February 14, 2025 - Unfortunately, the ongoing fiscal year 2025 appears more likely than ever to end in a full-year...

Dueling GOP Budget Blueprints Give Little Clarity on Spending Cuts

Feb 13, 2025 | Jeff Davis
February 13, 2025 - House and Senate budget blueprints considered in committee this week call for significant spending cuts but...

Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution

This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...

Eno’s Transit Cost & Project Delivery Research

Eno is undertaking a research, policy, and communications project to analyze current and historical trends in transit project delivery