As questions persist about funding for a major infrastructure bill and the congressional schedule remains tight, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) says action on a measure to increase investment in highways and other public-works programs may have to wait until a possible lame-duck session.
President Trump on Feb. 12 unveiled a detailed outline of what he said is a $1.5-trillion, 10-year proposal, of which only $200 billion would be direct federal funding. To help bolster at least the surface-transportation sector, Trump and others have broached the idea of hiking the federal gasoline tax. But tax increases are anathema to many Republicans, though not Shuster.