President Donald Trump commended the nation’s truckstops and travel plazas for their continued service to truck drivers as the nation grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.
04-17-2020
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a website to help retailers comply with the new federal minimum age to purchase tobacco products. Tobacco retailers should use this website as a resource for compliance materials as they are made available.
03-23-2020 Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao reaffirmed that DOT still expects private financing to play a role in the Administration鈥檚 infrastructure plan despite recent criticism of public-private partnerships by President Trump. Secretary Chao also said that work on an infrastructure package will not begin until after Congress works on tax reform, squashing suggestions that a tax code overhaul could be used to pay for an infrastructure package.
10-24-2017 President Donald Trump said that the Administration could release an infrastructure plan as early as mid-May that is expected to focus heavily on public-private partnerships for funding.
05-01-2017 A bipartisan group of 23 Senators asked the White House to keep the current compliance structure under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) arguing that changing it would undermine the intent of the program and lead to chaos in the marketplace.
03-17-2017 President Donald Trump intends to push a $1 trillion infrastructure plan that is expected to materialize this spring. The President鈥檚 plan for rebuilding the nation鈥檚 infrastructure is expected to rely on private investment instead of the federal government to back transportation projects.
03-01-2017 During his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump reiterated his call for a $1 trillion infrastructure package that would be financed with both public and private funds.
03-01-2017