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Introduced December 11, 2025 by Patrick Ryan · Last progress December 11, 2025
The bill directs substantial new Highway Trust Fund dollars toward planning, accessibility, and REPAIR/reconnection projects—expanding funding and access for local, rural, and tribal communities and improving safety and emissions alignment—but does so by reallocating limited federal transportation dollars (and increasing planning/reporting requirements), which may reduce funding flexibility for traditional highway, freight, and capacity needs and favor applicants with stronger planning capacity.
Local governments (and the contractors and workers they hire) receive roughly $3.0 billion per year (2027–2031) in new federal planning and construction grant funding (including $750M/year for planning and $2.25B/year for capital construction), enabling more infrastructure projects and jobs.
People with disabilities, low-income residents, and other underserved travelers gain improved mobility because grant selection criteria prioritize affordable, accessible transportation, connectivity, and equity-focused project elements.
State and local governments can use more federal highway and safety program dollars to rebuild or remove aging or divisive roadways by making REPAIR projects explicitly eligible under major federal programs, expanding options for community reconnection projects.
Taxpayers effectively fund the new grant stream—about $3.0 billion per year—through the Highway Trust Fund, increasing federal spending and reallocating fuel-tax–related revenue to these programs.
Drivers, rural and freight-dependent communities, and transportation workers may see reduced funding for traditional highway, freight, maintenance, or capacity projects because the bill prioritizes transit, walkability, mixed-use development, and REPAIR projects—shifting limited federal dollars away from some existing needs.
Drivers and some local planners lose an option to add highway travel lanes because grant rules prohibit using funds for new through-travel lanes, which could limit local responses to congestion in car-dependent areas.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes $3B/year (FY2027–FY2031) for the REPAIR program, splits funds into planning and construction grants, updates selection criteria, and makes REPAIR projects eligible across Title 23 programs.
Authorizes $3.0 billion per year from the Highway Trust Fund for fiscal years 2027–2031 to continue and expand the federal REPAIR infrastructure grant program, with $750 million per year for planning grants and $2.25 billion per year for capital construction grants. The bill updates program selection criteria to emphasize connectivity, affordable transportation options, safe integration with land use, economic vitality, and accessibility for people with disabilities, and makes REPAIR projects explicitly eligible under multiple federal highway programs.