Federal lawmakers need to maintain the historic levels of infrastructure spending they’ve approved over the past four years — and add $3.7 trillion — to keep the country’s infrastructure in decent shape and ready for the changing climate, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The report card for America’s infrastructure, produced every four years, shows conditions improving in nearly half the infrastructure categories the engineering group tracks, thanks in large part to the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
Eight of the 18 categories the ASCE evaluates showed improvements from 2021 to 2024, and the nation’s overall grade improved from a C to a C-plus.
“The new grades in 2025 demonstrate that investment in infrastructure makes a difference,” Darren Olson, who chaired the committee that wrote the report, said on a call with reporters.
