The bipartisan infrastructure deal that's expected to pass the Senate this week would spend $65 billion on broadband projects, including more than $40 billion for largely unnecessary municipal broadband efforts.
Amtrak's funding will double under the bipartisan infrastructure bill, while Amtrak passengers will have to put up with more rules.
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We don't have a gridlock problem. We have a spending problem.
President Joe Biden announced today that he'd reached an agreement on an infrastructure package with a group of 10 moderate senators.
For many elected Democrats, infrastructure is much more than roads, bridges, dams, and waterways.
A bill approved by the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation would give the money-losing rail company $19 billion over 5 years.
It’s a jobs plan that isn’t about jobs, and an infrastructure plan that isn’t about infrastructure.
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The president is doubling down on bad regulations that raise labor and material costs of federal infrastructure projects.
For the president, the spending is the point.
A federal mileage-based user fee is still years away, and there's very little political support for a federal gas tax hike.
Building more and better energy infrastructure is the best guarantee against fuel and electricity disruptions.
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The president says fighting climate change is one of his primary goals. His legislation would do no such thing.
The Biden administration is manufacturing a market failure to justify spending $100 billion on municipal broadband and other government-run internet projects.
The effort to redefine everything as infrastructure is a gift to central planners—because infrastructure is, almost by definition, centrally planned.
Just because a politician says something doesn't make it so.
In 1960, Congress forbid service plazas on the new Interstate highways. It’s time for that to change.
The president loves big government for its own sake and doesn’t really care what it does.
Democrats never miss an opportunity to rail against big corporations. Yet they're eagerly subsidizing their big corporate friends.
When everything’s infrastructure, nothing is.
The Federal Highway Administration is asking Texas officials to hit pause on a massive highway widening project while it examines whether it violates Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg admitted the mistake and walked back the administration's job creation promises on Monday night.
It's a regulation-heavy Monday.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says we should be "dreaming big." But the Golden State's vaunted high-speed rail project is turning out to be a train to nowhere.
We don't need Biden's 21st century 'New Deal' to rebound.
In his speech on Wednesday, the president called for the passage of the PRO Act, a grab bag of policies that labor unions have been pushing Congress to pass for years.
The president's speech outlining his American Jobs Plan was rich in ambition, but light on details.
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A series of laws passed in the 1970s may have permanently hamstrung American infrastructure development.
This time with tax increases too!
COVID-19 is reigniting old debates about zoning, public health, urban planning, and suburban sprawl.
More spending doesn't necessarily mean better results.
Senate Republicans have proposed a far more modest reauthorization of federal surface transportation spending programs that are set to expire in September.
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The "Moving Forward Framework" includes some sensible reforms alongside expensive, dubious policy proposals.
New proposed regulations from the White House's Council on Environmental Quality would limit how long federal environmental reviews could last.
We’re going to need a lot more sensing equipment—and fast. Here’s how to do it.
A new report from the Reason Foundation highlights some of the worsening conditions of America's roadways.
Michigan and Flint authorities thought switching water providers would be a great job stimulus program.
The president continues to move closer to Democratic proposals on infrastructure spending.
The feds aren't the only ones capable of designing cringe-worthy mascots.
Making infrastructure funds fun again!
The administration's new $1 trillion infrastructure plan is light on both details and free market reforms.
The president proposed a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan in his previous State of the Union address.
