Latest bipartisan infrastructure plan pitches higher gas tax

There are no tax increases or new gas taxes proposed in a GOP-led bid to craft a bipartisan infrastructure proposal. But the plan would index the nation’s 18-cent gas tax to inflation for the first time, which would likely raise the tax over time.

Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican and one of the negotiators, told reporters in the Capitol Wednesday the gas tax indexing proposal is one of the ways the GOP wants to pay for an infrastructure package that can garner support from Democrats and President Joe Biden.