As fiscal 2018 spending bills make their way through Congress, the numbers for key transportation construction programs are coming into clearer focus. Though spending levels are far from final, Senate and House appropriators have generally rejected the sharp cuts President Trump proposed for important infrastructure accounts.
Bills funding Transportation Dept. and Housing and Urban Development Dept. programs have cleared committee in each chamber, with the Senate panel's version, cleared on July 27, more generous to construction-related accounts than the bill the House Appropriations Committee approved 10 days earlier.