Summary
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a memo prioritizing federal funding for communities with marriage and birth rates above the national average.
The directive, which applies to grants, loans, and contracts, also prioritizes projects benefiting families with young children.
A congressional aide criticized the policy, saying, “Considering fertility rates when prioritizing federal grants? We obviously have no idea what the full impact of that will be… It’s absolutely creepy. It’s a little ‘Chinese government.’”
The memo also blocks mask mandates and requires compliance with immigration enforcement.
Despite whoever is pushing this, doesn’t it make sense? Communities with a lot of children need public transport more than others.
Said marriage rate too… that shouldn’t be a factor, just a bias marker. More kids? Yeah public transit, more people? Yeah public transit. More public transit. This is just cherry picking it.
The money that is cut from welfare programs isn’t going to be spent on helping people and we all know it.