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Senate Democrats announce $3.5 trillion budget agreement Business Related MLB The plan includes spending for climate change, health care and family-service programs sought by President Joe Biden. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. WASHINGTON (AP) – A bipartisan group of senators worked swiftly late Tuesday to shore up a $1 trillion infrastructure compromise they struck with President Joe Biden even as momentum shifts to a more robust Democratic proposal that’s coming into focus. Biden’s big infrastructure proposals are moving on parallel tracks in Con...

POLITICO Drivers used to pay for roads. Washington is killing that idea. The reason is simple math: The gasoline tax that bankrolls the federal Highway Trust Fund is politically untouchable. A sign at a Tesoro gas station on the Seward Highway along the Turnagain Arm in Girdwood, Alaska. | (Al Grillo/AP Photo) Link Copied For almost a century, one principle has governed Washington’s approach to transportation funding: The people who drive on roads should pay for them. But that tenet has been withering for nearly 30 years. And the huge infrastructure packages emerging from Congress and the B...

Discussions include indexing the federal gasoline tax to a measure of inflation as well as a new fee based on miles driven.

/PRNewswire/ -- Executives at middle market businesses overwhelmingly agree that the state of the U.S. infrastructure is hampering economic growth nationally,...

GOP Senators See Possible Infrastructure Deal After Biden Talks Bloomberg 29 mins ago © Bloomberg Construction Of Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge As Biden Releases Infrastructure Plan (Bloomberg) -- Republican senators say they’re encouraged about the the prospects for a deal with President Joe Biden on his $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal after an Oval Office meeting to negotiate over significant areas of disagreement. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, one of a half dozen senators who attended the talks, called the Thursday discussion “very productive” and said “we’re ...