Title: The Highway Trust Fund Explained
Headings: The Highway Trust Fund Explained
The Highway Trust Fund Explained
Where does the Highway Trust Fund get its funding?
What is the outlook for the Highway Trust Fund?
Why is the Highway Trust Fund important for American competitiveness?
What are some viable options to address the future of the Highway Trust Fund?

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Considering the importance of infrastructure in transporting goods and people in the economy, this puts the United States at an economic disadvantage. According to a 2019 report published by INRIX, a transportation analytics firm, American drivers lost an average of 99 hours, at a total cost of $88 billion, due to congestion in 2019. Four out of INRIX’s 20 most congested cities were in the United States in 2019, the highest concentration for any country in the grouping. TWEET THIS
What are some viable options to address the future of the Highway Trust Fund? Although the need for serious, long-term changes to the funding structure of the HTF is clear, there is disagreement over the approach to do so. Some of those disagreements focus on general questions like the responsibility of the federal government for transportation funding or the proper distribution of expenditures on highways as opposed to mass transit; other disagreements center on specific policy proposals. In order to create long-term sustainability for the Highway Trust Fund, lawmakers must increase revenue dedicated to the fund, reduce spending, or some combination of the two. Options include: Raise the gas tax: