BERKELEY – After another round of brinkmanship, a rancorous US Congress passed a last-minute bill to avert the bankruptcy of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), the primary source of federal funding for America’s highway and transit infrastructure. The HTF finances about $50 billion of infrastructure spending a year, and its bankruptcy would have forced state and local governments to shelve thousands of projects, threatening tens of thousands of construction jobs.
伯克利—在又一次边缘政策后，充满敌意的美国国会在最后关头通过了一项法案，避免了公路信托基金（Highway Trust Fund， HTF）的破产。公路信托基金是美国公路和交通基础设施的主要联邦资金源，每年为基础设施支出提供约500亿美元的资金，其破产将迫使州和地方政府的数千个项目搁置，威胁数十万建筑业工人的饭碗。