On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued a memo saying that the Trump administration will prioritize areas with larger marriage and start charges when it decides the place to dole out transportation funding.
Duffy detailed the “Handmaid’s Tale”-esque coverage in a memo that he mentioned “updates and resets the principles and standards underpinning U.S. Department of Transportation policies, programs, and activities.”
The memo says Trump’s DOT will “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.” The memo added that the coverage will even apply to how the administration will administer the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Funding Grants program, which “funds transit capital investments, together with heavy rail, commuter rail, mild rail, streetcars, and bus speedy transit,” based on the DOT.
“As we speak’s actions mark an vital step in restoring commonsense governance and merit-based insurance policies at USDOT,” Duffy mentioned in a information launch. “Below President Trump’s management, we’re targeted on eliminating extreme rules which have hindered financial progress, elevated prices for American households, and prioritized far-left agendas over sensible options.”
After all, prioritizing excessive start and marriage charges to find out who will get funding to repair their roads and public transportation techniques is simply imposing a far-right agenda on the nation.
The prime 10 states with the best start charges—South Dakota, Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota, Texas, Louisiana, Utah, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Kansas—are all Republican-run. Meaning Duffy’s coverage would prioritize crimson states over blue states.
Duffy, a former actuality tv contestant turned GOP congressman turned Fox Information character who has no precise transportation expertise, has 9 youngsters along with his fellow right-wing spouse, Rachel Campos-Duffy. He’s additionally an anti-abortion extremist who throughout his time in workplace voted a number of occasions for nationwide abortion bans.
He’s considered one of a lot of Trump administration officers with a bizarre obsession with having tons of children.
Donald Trump’s co-President Elon Musk has a breeder fetish, fathering at the very least 12 youngsters with three completely different ladies. He’s now attempting to create a compound for them to reside on in what sounds extra like a horror film plot. He’s brazenly railed about declining start charges, calling it “the biggest danger civilization faces,” and needs Individuals to have extra youngsters, despite the fact that he doesn’t assist the form of insurance policies that might make that economically possible.
What’s extra, Vice President JD Vance gave a speech to the anti-abortion March for Life on Jan. 24 through which he declared, “I want more babies in the United States of America.”
Vance additionally notoriously criticized Democratic ladies who would not have youngsters, calling them “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
Now, it seems, the official Trump administration coverage is to punish individuals who would not have youngsters by denying them funding to repair their roads and transportation techniques.
