Former U.S. transportation secretary Ray LaHood lobbied for a federal gas tax increase in a Washington Post letter the other day.

As part of its 2018 budget proposal, the Trump administration has introduced a plan to improve the nation’s infrastructure.

A Washington Post story today about one of President Trump’s budget cuts reflects what can be called victim journalism.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch.”

There are numerous causes of federal government expansion, including special-interest pressures and the ability to borrow-and-spend endlessly.

Neal McCluskey has updated an overview study on federal aid for K-12 education, which is posted at DownsizingGovernment.org. Neal reports that K-12 spending under the U.S. Department of Education and its predecessor agencies rose from $4.5 billion in 1965 to $40.2 billion in 2016, in constant 2016 dollars.

Large spending cuts should be on the agenda when the next president enters office in 2017. Spending cuts would spur economic growth by shifting resources from lower-valued government activities to higher-valued private ones.

In recent weeks, the bureaucrats at both the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have recommended that politicians should have a green light to supposedly stimulate growth by increasing the burden of government spending.

In the 1990s, the Clinton administration proposed restructuring our air traffic control (ATC) system, creating a self-funded organization outside of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The idea went nowhere in Congress at the time.

The solution to this giant mess