Policy Paper January 2026
The FRAME Policy Paper
The Framework for Rebuilding America’s Mobility Economy (FRAME) Act, set out in full: the case, the architecture, and the design, section by section. Not a routine reauthorization — a foundational shift in how the United States invests in, manages, and sustains its mobility network.
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Three ways in.
Summary · 4 pages
The summary
The whole argument on four designed pages: the six parts, the three block grants, the cost-share, and the settlement in numbers.
Full paper · 8 pages
The full paper
The complete policy paper in its designed edition: executive summary through the conclusion, with every section reference.
Presentation Deck · 19 slides
The presentation deck
The case for change in presentation form: why this matters, in the deck's own sourced numbers.
From the paper
The settlement in numbers.
The fiscal settlement the FRAME Act replaces, in the paper’s own figures.
$275B+
General Fund transfers sustaining the Highway Trust Fund since 2008
18.4¢
Federal gas tax per gallon, unchanged since 1993
90/100/50
Cost-share: repair, safety and digital, new lanes (Sec. 106)
5%
Performance bonus pool from block grant funds (Sec. 105)
1%
Safety forfeiture of formula funds (Sec. 403)
Contents
Six parts. One argument.
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Executive Summary
The system at its inflection point: a maintenance backlog, a fatality crisis, an insolvent trust fund — and a federal role remade from passive provider of capital to active steward of a mobility economy.
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The Architecture of Reform
Legacy programs consolidated into three block grants; a variable federal cost-share that pays 90% for repair, 100% for safety and digital, 50% for new lanes; technology defined as infrastructure.
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Performance over Pavement
Pay for Performance: state targets, a 5% bonus pool, a 1% safety forfeiture reinvested locally, and every result published through the Report Card, the Scorecard, and the Data Portal.
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The Innovation Frontier
An end to the time tax, paratransit held to a standard of quantifiably superior service, AV-ready infrastructure, and a national V2X deployment strategy.
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The Fiscal Honesty
The gas tax is finished. Fair Share for Fair Roads, steel revenue for the Trust Fund, and the American VMT Choice Pilot: privacy-protected, and ending in a framework for conversion.
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The Conclusion: A Legacy of Mobility
Stop managing decline and start engineering progress: the legal architecture, the fiscal tools, and the moral clarity to rebuild America’s mobility economy for the next century.