{"id":2227,"date":"2021-04-29T23:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2021-04-29T23:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:21:20","slug":"anatomy-of-a-bipartisan-coalition-supporting-gas-tax-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/anatomy-of-a-bipartisan-coalition-supporting-gas-tax-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Bipartisan Coalition Supporting Gas Tax Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? A bipartisan coalition in DC, the Problem Solvers Caucus, have endorsed a gas tax increase to fund infrastructure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? \u201cThe time is now for Congress and the administration to reach across the aisle, unite and boost investments in our surface transportation network that will move our transportation systems into the 21st century,\u201d said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.), the co-chairman of the Problem Solvers Caucus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? As political divide in Capitol Houses remain slim by margins, it leads to effective bipartisan solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bipartisan-group-backs-gas-tax-increase-to-fund-infrastructure-11619188415?mod=hp_lead_pos3\">Wall Street Journal | Bipartisan Group Backs Gas-Tax Increase as Option to Fund Infrastructure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? A bipartisan coalition in DC, the Problem Solvers Caucus, have endorsed a gas tax increase to fund infrastructure Why is this important? \u201cThe time is now for Congress and the administration to reach across the aisle, unite and boost investments in our surface transportation network that will move our transportation systems into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}