"After a White House meeting on infrastructure fell apart yesterday, lawmakers were left picking up the pieces, with the odds of Congress passing a broad package looking slimmer than ever.

Instead, it seems likely Congress will pursue a narrower surface transportation bill. That would happen through the reauthorization of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, which is set to expire in October 2020.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) appeared resigned to this outcome yesterday.

'It's not my jurisdiction to do a gigantic infrastructure package with $2 trillion,' DeFazio told reporters. 'It's my jurisdiction to write a robust, six-year transportation bill.'"
 
Maxine Joselow reports for E&E Daily May 23, 2019. [2]