On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued a memo saying that the Trump administration will prioritize areas with greater marriage and beginning charges when it decides the place to dole out transportation funding.
Duffy detailed the “Handmaid’s Tale”-esque coverage in a memo that he stated “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,” in keeping with the DOT.
“In the present day’s actions mark an necessary step in restoring commonsense governance and merit-based insurance policies at USDOT,” Duffy stated in a information launch. “Below President Trump’s management, we’re centered on eliminating extreme laws which have hindered financial progress, elevated prices for American households, and prioritized far-left agendas over sensible options.”
After all, prioritizing excessive beginning 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 high 10 states with the very best beginning 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 persona who has no precise transportation expertise, has 9 children together 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 instances for nationwide abortion bans.
He’s one in every 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 not less than 12 youngsters with three totally different ladies. He’s now attempting to create a compound for them to stay on in what sounds extra like a horror film plot. He’s overtly railed about declining beginning charges, calling it “the biggest danger civilization faces,” and needs Individuals to have extra children, though he doesn’t help the type of insurance policies that will make that economically possible.
What’s extra, Vice President JD Vance gave a speech to the anti-abortion March for Life on Jan. 24 wherein he declared, “I want more babies in the United States of America.”
Vance additionally notoriously criticized Democratic ladies who don’t have children, 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 don’t have children by denying them funding to repair their roads and transportation techniques.
