The Highway Funding Flexibility Act of 2025 redirects all unspent and future federal funds from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure grant program away from EV charging stations. Instead, those funds must be used for traditional highway projects: road construction and repair, bridge replacement, wildlife crossing structures, and commercial truck parking. States receive their shares based on existing highway apportionment formulas. The bill applies both to money already sitting unobligated and to every future fiscal year's allocation under those programs.
Environmental Concerns
- Federal EV charging infrastructure funding — redirects all NEVI Formula Program and Charging and Fueling Infrastructure grant funds away from electric vehicle charging buildout
- Clean-energy transportation subsidy — eliminates dedicated federal spending stream that supported EV adoption and emissions reduction in the transportation sector
Average Household Impact
- Traditional highway and bridge repair funding — redirects EV program dollars to road resurfacing, bridge rehabilitation, and wildlife crossings that benefit all drivers
Congressional Summary
Highway Funding Flexibility Act of 2025This bill effectively eliminates the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program.Specifically, this bill requires states to use unobligated funds under these Department of Transportation (DOT) programs only for certain non-electric vehicle related projects.As background, on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14154, Unleashing American Energy, which directed federal agencies to immediately pause the disbursement of funds for electric vehicle charging stations made available through the NEVI and CFI programs.Under this bill, states may use any of the unobligated funds from these programs for projects that includethe construction or rehabilitation of a federal highway,the replacement or rehabilitation of bridges,improvements that reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions (e.g., wildlife crossing structures), orparking for commercial motor vehicles.DOT must apportion any of its unobligated or future fiscal year funds from these programs to the states based on the current methodology for apportioning federal highway funds.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-03-13
- Date Added
- 2026-05-05
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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