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Washington’s partisan impasse continues to keep the federal government in a partial shutdown as the transportation panels eye consideration of a multiyear highway measure.

With a Sept. 30 federal funding deadline fast approaching, lawmakers in the House and the Senate appear to be at an impasse over ways to avert a partial government shutdown.

Lawmakers returned from their August recess staring at a deadline to finalize fiscal 2026 funding for the federal government.

Subcommittee debate on the bill meant to fund operations at the Department of Transportation is scheduled for July 14 with full committee consideration slated for July 17.

President Donald Trump’s tax and budget agenda is one step closer toward realization after the House of Representatives agreed on a partisan legislative blueprint.

The transportation funding subcommittee in the U.S. House will promote connectivity projects while focusing on taxpayers, its new leadership said this month.

After committees approved versions of a fiscal 2024 transportation funding bill, Congress is unlikely to clear the legislation before its August recess.

Safety and freight connectivity programs are prioritized in the White House’s fiscal 2024 budget request for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

WASHINGTON — The Biden White House intends to seek a boost in funding for infrastructure programs and freight-related grants in its upcoming budget request to Congress.

Federal trucking regulators would receive a boost of more than $100 million in their annual budget under a fiscal 2018 funding bill House lawmakers unveiled this week.