Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The Highway Trust Fund is broken. Slated to run out of money by Aug. 1, the fund has relied on an 18.4-cent per gallon gasoline tax last raised in 1993. (iStock Image)

Energy and Environment

How to shore up the highway fund

Zack Colman · July 18, 2014 2:30 pm

(Illustration by Karen Lomax/Examiner)

Roads are in bad shape, but just how bad?

Brian Hughes · July 18, 2014 1:00 pm

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Another warning that a national debt crisis is looming

Philip Klein · July 17, 2014 9:04 pm

VIDEO: Obama pushes plan for private funding of public roads

Lisa Ruhl · July 17, 2014 8:24 pm

Senate votes to extend terrorism insurance program

Senate votes to extend terrorism insurance program

Stephen Ohlemacher · July 17, 2014 8:00 pm

This July 10, 2014 photo shows a home for sale in Quincy, Mass. Freddie Mac reports on average U.S. mortgage rates for this week on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Average US mortgage rates dip slightly

Martin Crutsinger · July 17, 2014 3:44 pm

An Afghan Air Force C-130 sits on the flightline at Afghanistan's Kabul International Airport in April. (Photo: SIGAR)

National Security

The U.S. is about to give $100 million worth of cargo planes to a country that may not need them

Kelly Cohen · July 17, 2014 9:00 am

House passes $20B bill cutting IRS tax enforcement

House passes $20B bill cutting IRS tax enforcement

Andrew Taylor · July 17, 2014 1:40 am

The Honorable Chief Judge Gerald E. Rosen, U.S. Eastern District Court, speaks to representatives from various Michigan corporations and individuals attending a press conference at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Mich., Wednesday, July 16, 2014 . The Detroit Institute of Arts says it has pledges for about 80 percent of the $100 million it promised toward an effort involving the state of Michigan and major foundations to prevent the sale of art and soften cuts to city retirees during Detroit's bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Todd McInturf) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT

Museum raises $80M toward Detroit bankruptcy deal

Corey Williams · July 16, 2014 11:48 pm

Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

The surprising thing Veterans Affairs admitted while asking Congress for $18 billion more

Mark Flatten · July 16, 2014 8:09 pm

Bogus cash pays for roads

Andrew Taylor · July 16, 2014 3:40 pm

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is urging Congress to quickly approve legislation to pay for highway and transit programs amid warnings that the U.S. government's Highway Trust Fund is nearly broke. If allowed to run dry, that could threaten to set back or shut down projects across the country, force widespread layoffs of construction workers and delay needed repairs and improvements. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson)

Who’ll build the roads?

John Stossel · July 16, 2014 3:32 pm