Club for Growth: Don’t Bail Out Highway Fund With Phony Offset

 Club for Growth President Chris Chocola: “There’s simply no reason to keep kicking the can down the road.”

Washington, DC – The Club for Growth released the following statement on plans by House GOP leaders to offset a bailout of the Highway Trust Fund by counting savings from a “not as large bailout” of the United States Postal Service.

“Both the Highway Trust Fund and the United States Postal Service are unsustainable in their current form, and stealing from one to prop up the other is simply bad policy and demonstrates a lack of leadership by the Republicans,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “Instead of continuing the charade that the Highway Trust Fund and USPS are solvent in the long run, Congress should devolve highway funding to the states and privatize the United States Postal Service completely. There’s simply no reason to keep kicking the can down the road.”