Share of ASCE's ten-year infrastructure need that is funded

Why this row

The American Society of Civil Engineers grades the country's infrastructure a C, the highest since its report cards began in 1998, and estimates a need of $9.1 trillion over 2024 to 2033 with $3.7 trillion unfunded at today's spending. The surface-transportation authorizations of the 2021 infrastructure law run out on September 30, 2026. The Moses-Jacobs Act is this row's vehicle: Title I closes the $3.67 trillion gap at fixed federal cost-shares (60% for surface transportation, 50% for water, dams and parks, 65% for levees and inland waterways, 40% for aviation, 25% for schools, 15% for energy repair) with $1.66 trillion of federal budget authority, and a second layer adds $2.0 trillion for grid, housing-enabling infrastructure, critical minerals and workforce, on $840 billion federal. The whole program is $5.7 trillion of investment on $2.5 trillion of budget authority over ten years, about 3.5% of FY2025 outlays a year. ASCE's figure is its own estimate, which is why the anchor is labelled an estimate and not a demonstrated rate. Reaching 100% means the law is enacted and the ten-year money authorized; the rows that follow score whether it is spent, delivered and seen.

The path

linear; the successor to the 2021 infrastructure law is scored against the $3.7 trillion gap, and the Act's Title I is the vehicle

Each July 4 the row shows its baseline, this path, the latest official value and a status of ahead, on schedule or behind. As an anticipatory row it reports the public decisions that delayed it.