I’ll put it another way, YES they are responsible for interstate highway but we DO NOT have the money, in now way, no how. Otherwise this would not even be a topic for discussion. Use the money that already goes to this fund and get their damn hands out of my pockets. Why should I care about some local road or bridge in disrepair in California because THEY DECIDED to appropriate those funds to something other than “infrastructure repair”
This is and always was a liberal spending boondoggle. Just because Trump does it does not make it better. It’s still money we don’t have
Go back and research the history of our national road laws. It's pretty fascinating. The first Federal road was legislated as one of the conditions Ohio demanded before it would join the U.S. in 1803. Ohio was really the first U.S. state that had no historical links to the Atlantic Ocean (Vermont, Kentucky and Tennessee had previously been provinces or territories of original Thirteen Colonies with ports on the Atlantic), so this was a real turning point in our nation's history when it came to a Federal role in building and maintaining roads.