"It's time for this boondoggle to die," said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

Two New York members of Congress called them "vulture funds" trying to get "blood out of a turnip" at the expense of Puerto Rico electricity customers.

"Most states do not expect to be able to keep key roads and bridges to a state of good repair," said David Draine, principal officer, public sector, retirement systems for the Pew Charitable Trusts. 

With big state incentives and tariff protection, a United Arab Emirates-based aluminum producer has pledged to build the first new U.S. smelter in decades.

Executive Director Gene Seroka said the port's downstream prospects are unclear as it deals with the "tariff whipsaw effect" from the Trump administration.

The House Appropriations Committee kicks things off with markups of three infrastructure-related funding bills this week, including transportation.

The comprehensive federal tax bill President Trump signed July 4 is credit negative for universities, Moody's Ratings said.

Most states have already enacted their budgets for the fiscal year as the effects of Medicaid restrictions and tax policy changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill are being analyzed and raising concern.

The layoffs will mean a hit to basic services and the cancellation or delay of projects.

The dueling lawsuits underscores the need for alternative dispute resolution in public-private partnership contracts, said a P3 attorney.

Without the increase U.S. Virgin Islands matching funds bonds would have defaulted in the next few years, some observers said.

California local, state and federal officials blasted the Trump administration and congressional GOP for blocking supplemental recovery aid after the wildfires.

The budget traveled a bumpy road before a package of spending bills won final passage just days before the July 1 start of fiscal 2026.

The policy shift may crowd out some projects, warned Baruch Feigenbaum, senior managing director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.

Housing advocates are celebrating the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill for the boost in Low Income Housing Tax Credits which is projected to boost the use of private activity bonds.

Market participants launched the largest lobbying effort in recent memory to protect municipal bonds and got what they wanted as the tax-exemption survived.

Oregon Department of Transportation leaders said they will begin layoffs Monday after lawmakers adjourned without passing a transportation funding bill.

As the Senate-approved version of the reconciliation bill bounces back to the House, the SALT caucus that was key to its passage takes a look at SALT provision changes.

The addition of Turner-Bond as a partner will deepen Orrick's public finance practice's P3 expertise.

Oklahoma can continue to collect income taxes from certain Native Americans in a case that threatened to cost the state millions of dollars in tax refunds.