The BUILD America 250 Act would commit the country to another five years of traffic, pollution, and expensive car dependence while leaving public transit systems without the funding they desperately need.

Transportation is already the second-largest household expense. Yet this bill would cut total transit funding below Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act levels while increasing highway funding. It provides no dedicated support for operating buses and trains and preserves rules that make communities pay more locally for major transit projects than for new highways.

The bill also ignores basic reforms that would make transportation safer and more affordable. It fails to prioritize repairing existing roads and bridges before expanding them, does not require transit-supportive or safety-focused road designs, and leaves communities without dedicated support for sidewalks, bike lanes, bus shelters, and transit-friendly planning.

Rural communities are shortchanged, too. The legislation fails to increase operating support for rural transit, strengthen coordination across jurisdictions, provide agencies with reliable multi-year funding estimates, or invest in innovative transportation options for small cities and rural areas.

Congress must reject this backward plan and write a transportation bill that lowers household costs, strengthens public transit, repairs existing infrastructure, improves safety, and reduces dependence on fossil fuels.

Click “START WRITING” to demand that Congress oppose the BUILD America 250 Act and invest in transportation solutions that move people, not just more cars.