A House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee will consider solutions to the Highway Trust Fund’s finances during a hearing this week, as leaders move toward writing a five-year transportation reauthorization.
The Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, chaired by Rep. David Rouzer (R-N.C.), will focus on “the need for a long-term solution to the highway trust fund.” Its hearing will follow a session of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee earlier this month with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
One idea that has come up to shore up federal transportation coffers is to charge electric vehicles for using the nation’s highways, since their drivers don’t pay gasoline taxes.
“EVs should pay part of the cost of roads and bridges that they use, and how you do that is a question that we’ll have to grapple with,” Duffy told senators.
