Schumer Open to Short Highway Patch With Tax Bill
The highway trust fund’s legislative authorization to spend money expires at the end of July.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) participates in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, July 8, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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Democrats might be willing to accept a short-term U.S. highway funding measure this month if they believed Congress would pass tax legislation in the next few months, Senator Chuck Schumer said Thursday.
“We need to see some broad support that people would have confidence that over the next three or four months we could actually get the international tax reform bill done,” Schumer of New York, the chamber’s No. 3 Democrat, told reporters at the Capitol.