Andreas Scheuer has been a member of the Bundestag since 2002. Most recently, he won the direct mandate in the 2021 federal election in the Passau constituency.
From 2018 to 2021 he was also Federal Minister of Transport. In this position, Scheuer was responsible for the failed car toll. The project - a prestige project of the CSU in the then federal government - was stopped as illegal by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) In 2019, the federal government had to pay 243 million euros in damages to the intended operators.