Traffic Department (DOT) abolished two memorandums from Biden administration that the agency said that they were inconsistent with priorities to serve “social justice and environment programs”.
Two Memorandum issued during the Biden under the Management Board Secretary of Pete Buttigieg These goals such as “Re -connecting communities and reflecting the involvement of groups in unfavorable and under -represented in the planning process, selecting the design and design process” and “accommodation of new and new technologies such as electric vehicle filling stations,” DOT.
“Under the guidance of President Trump, the Ministry of Transport returns to the basics – the construction of critical infrastructure projects that people move and move trade,” ” Sean Duffy Transport Secretary he said in a statement. “The previous administration perfected the Congress in an attempt to encourage a radical social and environmental program to the American people. This was an act of federal overdue. Now it stops.”
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Traffic along a change in traffic road exchange of Turnpike in a bottle of Raton in Florida, February 25, 2022. (John McCall/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Specifically, the department was engaged in the efforts of the memorandum when it comes to reducing “greenhouse gas emissions” and “capital initiative”.
Getting to know is focused on how to best use billions in financing the Investment Law in Infrastructure and jobs in 2021 throughout the country. No memorable is available on Highway Federal Administration website.
However, this is not the first time memory have faced surveillance.
In January 2023, the Economic Chamber of the United States asked the Federal Highway Administrator Shailan Bhatt to resolve “the policy on the use of Bipartisan resource of the Infrastructure Act to build a better America” to avoid the excessive complication of the entire investment mission in infrastructure funding tax bonds.
TRANSPORT Secretary Sean Duffy targets New York congestion. (Eduardo Munozalvarez/ViewPress/Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“We have supported the Law on Investments and Jobs for Infrastructure (IIA), because it is the most significant infusion of investment in our infrastructure from the adoption of the highway interstate system in the mid-1950s,” the Chamber wrote with various other groups, including the US Transport Association and the Association of US Railways.
“It is also a careful negotiating and balanced package of politics reforms and targeted national investments that will improve the life of Americans. However, the Memorandum of December 16th caused a significant confusion within the transport community, as the guidelines intended to serve as a comprehensive framework of policy that was communicated to resources, which was in accordance with the law.
President Donald Trump, right, listens to Sean Duffy’s secretary speaking in James Brady’s Brifing room in the White House on Thursday, January 30, 2025. In Washington, DC (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
In the early days of Duffy’s duty, Dot referred to various liberal policies, including ordering the audit of the California railway project and demands that the congestion program of Manhattan be completed. Congress is also observed by other efforts related to transportation, such as a desire to get rid of the effort for an electric vehicle in Postal Service of the United States.
