Invest more than $50 billion in America’s bridges through the BUILD America 250 Act.

I’m extremely proud of the historic level of investment in America’s bridges – at more than $50 billion, it’s the largest such investment in our history.

Graves highlighted a commitment in the bill to provide more than $50 billion for bridges.

Graves Introduces Bipartisan, Five-Year Surface Transportation Reauthorization – the BUILD America 250 Act | Congressman Sam Graves | Representing the 6th District of Missouri
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To authorize funding for Federal-aid highways, bridge construction and rehabilitation, highway safety programs, transit programs, and rail programs, and for other purposes.

Graves introduced the BUILD America 250 Act, a bill to authorize funding for highway, bridge, safety, transit, and rail programs.

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The legislation provides the largest ever investment in America’s bridges

The committee page describes the BUILD America 250 Act as providing a major bridge investment.

Surface Transportation Reauthorization | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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Graves said his version of the bill would drum up to $550 billion in funding for highways and bridges.

This is a concrete legislative push tied to the broader transportation package, but it is still only a proposal and does not show enacted bridge spending.

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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on May 22 approved the BUILD America 250 Act by a 62-2 vote, making it eligible for full House consideration.

The bill advanced through committee, which is serious progress, but it still had not become law, so the bridge-spending promise remained unfinished.

unresolved same_term A for effort

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House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders said Graves and Larsen released text for a five-year reauthorization bill, and Graves described the bridge investment as more than $50 billion. The release said leaders still planned formal introduction and later markup.

The official committee release documents the promised bridge investment and Graves' role, but it was still proposed legislation, not enacted funding.

partial same_term A for effort

Graves & Larsen Announce Deal on Bipartisan, Five-Year Surface Transportation Reauthorization – the BUILD America 250 Act | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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The bill text identifies the measure as the BUILD America 250 Act and says Graves, with Larsen, introduced a bill to authorize funding for federal-aid highways, bridge construction and rehabilitation, highway safety, transit, and rail programs.

The bill text is concrete legislative action tied to bridge funding, but it is a bill draft/introduced measure rather than an enacted law.

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build_america_250_act_bill_text.pdf
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Section 1108 would establish bridge grant programs for new bridges and improvements to bridge safety, efficiency, reliability, capacity, and utility. The authorization section also includes a bridge completion program at $2 billion per year for FY2027-FY2031.

The bill contains substantive bridge-funding mechanisms, including formula and competitive bridge programs, but these provisions still depended on enactment.

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build_america_250_act_bill_text.pdf
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The official summary says Section 1108 authorizes formula and competitive programs for bridge improvement projects, with annual state apportionments, off-system bridge set-asides, local bridge competitions, and competitive NHS bridge grants.

The section-by-section confirms the bridge-program design, but it describes what the bill would authorize, not spending already delivered.

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BUILD America 250 Act Section-by-Section Summary
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The committee announced formal House introduction of H.R. 8870, the BUILD America 250 Act, by Graves, Larsen, Rouzer, Norton, and Webster, and scheduled markup for May 21, 2026.

Formal introduction is serious progress by Graves, but introduction alone did not deliver the promised federal bridge investment.

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T&I Committee Leaders Introduce the BUILD America 250 Act
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The committee said it approved H.R. 8870 after a 14-hour markup. Graves said he looked forward to moving the bill on the House floor and working with the Senate before the September 30 expiration of current law.

Committee approval materially advanced the bill, but the release itself shows the measure still needed House floor action, Senate action, and final passage.

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T&I Committee Approves BUILD America 250 Act | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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The House Committee Repository records that the amendment in the nature of a substitute was agreed to and H.R. 8870 was ordered favorably reported to the House by 62 yeas to 2 nays.

This official record corroborates a strong committee-stage effort, but it is only a committee report action and not enactment of $50 billion-plus bridge investment.

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H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared for consideration | Committee Repository | U.S. House of Representatives
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Business Insider reported that after committee approval, the BUILD America 250 Act still had to go through the full House and Senate before reaching the President for signature.

This post-markup reporting supports failure to deliver as of late May 2026: the bridge funding package remained unenacted despite committee progress.

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Road & Track reported that Graves proposed an EV and hybrid fee as part of a broader multi-year infrastructure bill expected to raise up to $550 billion for highways and bridges.

This shows Graves publicly developing a financing approach before introduction, but it was still a proposal and not delivered bridge spending.

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