The coalition urges the Senate Finance Committee to take immediate action to preserve federal highway and transit funding for the rest of 2014. The Highway Trust Fund is projected to run out of money in August and will be unable to support new projects after October 1 without action, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs. While there are disagreements on how to stabilize funding, the groups argue this does not warrant shutting down programs and ask the committee to find a solution. They also urge establishing a permanent long-term solution to stabilize and grow transportation funding.