GOP Lawmakers Divided On Highway Funding As Trust Fund Expiration Looms
Top Senate Republicans have been meeting for weeks on legislation to fund the Transportation Department’s Highway Trust Fund before the current authorization runs out on May 31. With an extension, the Transportation Department says the fund has enough money to pay its bills until roughly July. Come August, however, the money will stop and the department legally cannot pay states and transit agencies.
Four states have already halted work on new infrastructure projects, according to a letter Senate Democrats sent to Finance Committee Chairman Orin Hatch (R-Utah) this week.
“Congress is running out of time and we have been down this road before,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), ranking member on the Finance Committee, wrote with the 11 other Democratic committee members. “We know all too well that our nation’s infrastructure is in critical need of help.”
Hatch, a big player in the ongoing meetings, has said little. Democrats have urged him to include them in the conversations.
GOP Lawmakers Divided On Highway Funding As Trust Fund Expiration Looms
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the repukes want to give that money to the 1%....they don't need roads when they fly everywhere. imo.
something like " any woman who decides to get an abortion, shall not use any road, street, highway, walkway, path or trail to see their doctor." we had some projects here that were about to shut down last time.