highway funding
Interstate budget allocation
Highway funding is money allocated for building, maintaining, and improving roads and highways.
In the United States, it comes primarily from federal and state fuel taxes deposited into dedicated highway trust funds.
Highway funding often becomes a political battleground: Congress is debating the highway funding bill.
The term appears in discussions of infrastructure policy, transportation budgets, and debates over how roads should be paid for as fuel tax revenue declines.
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- appropriationsDesignated funds for purposes
- tollsCharges for passage
- asphaltPetroleum-based paving material
- potholesPavement depressions from wear
bridges · interstate · federal · federal dollars · gasoline tax · user fees · construction · public works · road construction · repairs · stimulus · ribbon cutting · earmarks · pavement · commuters · rush hour · congestion · budget
- Federal Spendingdefense budget, military spending, healthcare spending, infrastructure spending, interest payments
- government spendinggovernment spending, federal budget, expenditures, allocations, military spending
- Policyeconomic policy, public policy, energy policy, tax policy, domestic policy
- transport policycongestion pricing, fuel taxes, road tolls, toll roads, bridge tolls
- pork barrelearmark, earmarking, pork barrel, bridge to nowhere, pet project
- transportation fundingfederal aid, infrastructure spending, state grants, matching grants, block grants