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A new DOT order restricts funding to places with high birth and marriage rates

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lyz
Feb 19, 2025
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On January 29, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued an order announcing that the DOT would prioritize issuing grants, loans, and contracts to communities with “marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.” This would have made a lot more headlines than it did if not for the, well, everything else.

Still, according to Newsweek, “Connec…

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