Posted on 06/25/2025 12:13:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the DOT will not pay to rebuild damage from protests that local leaders actively supported or let happen, during an interview on "The Benny Johnson Show."
"Those cities reach out to us and ask for grant money to fix the roads that were damaged or the bridges that were damaged by these protesters, which by the way, they let protest," he said. "They let them stay there, they tried to thwart Donald Trump from bringing in the National Guard or the military to put an end to the violence."
"We're not going to fund those. We're not going to help rebuild the roads that they allowed to be destroyed."
"I had a request come in to help repair the damage from the George Floyd riots in the Twin Cities area. I'm like, why should the American taxpayer fund the damage that you all were celebrating? Tim Walz was celebrating the protesters?"
"Walz opened up his windows so he can smell the smells of the rioters and then you, the taxpayers gonna pay to rebuild the roads that they had destroyed," Duffy said.
BENNY JOHNSON: You announced last week that the DOT will not be assisting in rebuilding of places that have been ravaged by anti-ICE protesters, criminal aliens torching and destroying cities. Can you explain your stance here as, perhaps, a warning to these sanctuary city or places?
TRANSPORT SECRETARY SEAN DUFFY: At DOT, we have a whole bunch, a lot of equity. So whether it's, air travel, airplanes, roads, bridges, we regulate cars, pipelines, ports, rail, passenger and freight, it's a huge set of equities, but, a lot of communities and states, all of them around the country, apply to us for grant money.
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The leftist politicians let it happen and some seemed to encourage the rioting. Let them pay for it too. Maybe it will change their way of thinking.
Did you hear that, Mayor Bass?
Transportation Sec. Duffy (and the rest of the nation) is looking at you! We saw what you did. Twice this year, already!
To leftist and socialist mayors and governors:
You broke it, you pay for it!
My thoughts exactly!
Excellent!
Let the far left crazies live in the burnt out cities they destroyed.
It OUGHT to.
Remember the Baltimore riots? the demorat mayor at that time allowed people to riot and I quote
“ let them get it out of their system”.
smdh
Beeware
It would surprising if this pronouncement became reality. Past experience says the resolve will be short lived unless the Trump Revolution last beyond his term. It won’t if this is just talk.
Good. Let them rebuild what they broke without our help.
(News update: Federal judge orders DOT to help rebuild all the cities and buy pizza and ice cream for all the rioters.)
A good start, but additionally some way must be found to prevent the leftist financial groups and funds from buying up all the devalued real estate after their rioting fellow-travelers have driven property values down.
good
There are consequences for being a dumbass and they should have to suffer them.
That’s what to do. Let them circle the drain then disappear.
Hard working voters don’t need to subsidize Liberal BS!
Good for Duffy!
Hope he sticks to his guns on this. Taxpayers shouldn’t be expected to pay for damage caused by commies.
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