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.
February 9, 2024 - The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its annual budget outlook yesterday, and the forecast contains short-term...
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February 2, 2024 - The House and Senate Appropriations Committees are hard at work reconciling the twelve annual appropriations bills...
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January 25, 2024 - The White House this morning announced the selectees for $2.9 billion in INFRA grants from the...
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January 19, 2024 - It may seem like "deja vu all over again," but Congress has now extended the USDOT...
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January 12, 2024 - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) today said that he is sticking with the fiscal 2024 appropriations...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/money-2173148_1280-e1495718384908-15.jpg500750Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2024-01-12 15:35:592024-01-29 17:07:30Speaker Sticks With New Appropriations Deal As CR Expires in 7 Days
January 12, 2024 - The Departments of Transportation and Energy on January 11 announced the recipients of almost $623 million...
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January 12, 2024 - The revised fiscal 2024 appropriations framework agreed to by House Speaker Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Schumer...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/money-assorted-bills-5-1-100-stack-scaled-3.jpg17072560Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2024-01-12 13:21:412024-01-30 08:24:40New FY24 Spending Deal Has $2.8 Billion Plus-Up for THUD Bill
December 21, 2023 - Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation notified Congress that they have selected eleven projects to...
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December 21, 2023 - 2023 was the year that the unprecedented competitive grant funding provided by the bipartisan infrastructure law...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/money-2173148_1280-e1495718384908-15.jpg500750Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2023-12-21 12:21:182023-12-21 12:21:18USDOT Announced Over $40 Billion in Discretionary Grants in 2023
December 8, 2023 - The House of Representatives is still operating under a schedule that calls for the chamber to...
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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,...