The five-year Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act still has more than three years to run, but a House subcommittee is focusing attention on a big post-IIJA worry: the Highway Trust Fund’s projected poor financial health.
At an Oct. 18 House highways and transit subcommittee hearing, there was general agreement from witnesses and lawmakers that a long-range fix for the Trust Fund is needed. Several alternatives or supplements to the trust fund were discussed: including mileage-based user fees and federal levies on electric vehicles, which contribute nothing to the fund.