Abolish discretionary transportation grants in favor of formula funding
What the document says“DOT’s discretionary grant-making processes should be abolished, and funding should be focused on formulaic distributions to the states”
The chapter argues that federal money removes the incentive for state and local officials to check whether an investment is worthwhile, because it becomes what it calls someone else's money. It says states know their own needs and are the ones incentivized to weigh long-term maintenance costs, and that at a bare minimum the number of grant programs should be consolidated.
What the document actually says“DOT’s discretionary grant-making processes should be abolished, and funding should be focused on formulaic distributions to the states”
End the grants the department hands out by choice. Send money to states by formula instead.
Washington picks which transport projects get money. The book says states should decide instead. Money would go out by a set formula.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The nearest candidate, rule-2025-19460 of October 3, 2025, removes race-based and sex-based presumptions of disadvantage from the Transportation Department's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise programs. It changes who qualifies inside those programs and leaves every discretionary grant program standing. Nothing indexed abolishes or consolidates the department's discretionary grant programs or shifts that money to formula distribution to the states, which would take an act of Congress. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.