Buttigieg sees need for ‘filling gaps’ on highway funding
User fee pilots could provide data to inform new system
Bloomberg Government
By Lillianna Byington
July 19, 2022
Republicans warned President Joe Biden’s top transportation official that the administration’s policies could worsen the diminishing solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. Lawmakers pointed to the administration’s push toward more electric vehicles, which don’t pay a tax at the pump, and Biden’s urging for Congress to temporarily suspend the national gasoline tax as major hurdles to sufficient funding for the country’s highways. The main source of money for the Highway Trust Fund, the gasoline tax, hasn’t increased since 1993. Biden recently called on lawmakers to enact a gas tax pause as prices reached record highs in recent months. “The administration is focusing on promoting electric cars and has championed a gas tax holiday, those are things that take away revenue, not add to it,” Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) said at a House Transportation and Infrastructure hearing Tuesday about the infrastructure law.
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