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Posted on 05/06/2025 8:39:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has purged 3,200 grants, left behind by President Joe Biden, of various social justice and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, while clearing a backlog of funding to kickstart infrastructure projects, the Daily Caller has learned.
The DOT is planning to announce Tuesday that they have awarded 180 of the 3,200 infrastructure grants that were previously backlogged under the Biden administration, according to materials shared with the Caller. The grants were previously under review by the department for social justice, DEI and Green New Deal initiatives, the Caller previously reported. With the Department’s Tuesday action, some of the 3,200 grants backlogged, totaling more than $3.2 billion, have been awarded for various projects but stripped of any social justice, DEI and Green New Deal elements, according to materials shared with the Caller.
“America is building again. At the Department of Transportation, that means getting back to basics: Building More, Building Efficiently and Building Quickly. The last administration liked to grab the headlines but didn’t want to do the hard work of building,” Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said in a statement shared with the Caller.
“They also tied road construction up with red tape and leftist social requirements – adding millions in costs and months of delay – all while our outdated infrastructure sat in disrepair. This administration has a different vision: drain the swamp and make government work for the American people,” he continued.
One of the grants awarded fulfills a campaign promise Trump made while running for reelection in 2019. The largest package approved is $550 million towards breaking ground on Alabama’s I-10 Mobile River bridge, the Caller learned.
“So the I-10 bridge, and I say this, and I give you this commitment and I can’t play with these three: Steve, John, Bill, everybody sitting here … If we win this election, which is just sixteen months away, we’re giving you a brand new I-10 bridge,” Trump said in 2019.
Other fulfilled grants include 17 projects, $1.4 billion in total, for the Bridge Investment Program; 33 projects, $277 million in total, for the airport terminal program; six projects totaling $221 million for Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements and 30 projects, totaling $494 million, for Low or No Emission (Bus) Grants, materials provided to the Caller showed.
Some grants needed to be stripped of initiatives which included a “racial equity impact analysis” or an “equity and inclusion program/plan” coupled with every project, the Caller learned.
“All competitive grant and cooperative agreement award selections must comply with current Administration priorities and Executive Orders (EO) that address energy, climate change, diversity and gender, and economic analysis, and other priorities,” the earlier memo on reviewing the grants for such initiatives read.
A source familiar with the situation previously told the Caller that the department’s earlier review of the grants was to ensure that the grants are compliant with the law and the president’s priorities and to ensure they funded “safety and core infrastructure” in an effort to “allow projects to be completed more quickly and more affordably.”
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This is winning.
By this weekend:
Federal Judge orders Department of Transportation to reinstate DEI Grants
Because of the new rules:
Whatever Obama and Biden did Trump may not touch.
Whatever Trump does may be vetoed by any Federal Judge.
President Trump has probably taken more than ten thousand separate executive actions since January.
There have been about three hundred leftist lawsuits.
You do the math.
Those DEI shysters should be ashamed of themselves for exploiting an old fool like Biden to get to the top. Back to the end of the line — where they rightfully belong. Riot on somebody else’s dime. Maybe Buffett, Gates, Soros, or somebody else who wants to create the world in their own image and religion.
“Some grants needed to be stripped of initiatives which included a “racial equity impact analysis” or an “equity and inclusion program/plan” coupled with every project”
These “initiatives” to analyze “racial impact” were probably just grants to BIPOC folks to study themselves. Many Universities have a Black Studies department in which the students basically study themselves. After they graduate they apply for grants to do further study on themselves, and potentially to teach other BIPOC folks to continue to study themselves, and make lots of money doing so. This is all fine except for making the taxpayers pay for it. Michelle Obama’s thesis (see below) is just one of thousands of examples of self-study. There is arguably no benefit to society in this sort of study. It produces nothing except racial animus. You end up with a pile of paper and a bad attitude. Time would be better spent fixing decaying infrastructure, for example replacing broken windows, leaky roofs, ugly exteriors, faulty electrical and plumbing. This goes for non-BIPOC as well. The gamers and inventors of new crypto currencies should learn how to use a power drill and fix their slums.
https://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf
Trickle after trickle of good news. The dismantling of Democrat stupidity continues. Now, if we just had a conservative Supreme Court...
For our ornithology research, we have always received private funding.
No strings attached, no pressure or influence to modify results to fit a narrative.
For that I am always grateful. We could self-fund, but our two funding sources have been there through thick and thin.
Problem is the MSM, ABCNNBCBSNPR, IS NOT REPORTING ANY OF THIS. The majority of people do not even know what’s going on.
All the MSM reports is:
TRUMP DICTATOR! TRUMP LAWLESS! TRUMP INCOMPETENT! IMPEACH TRUMP! TRUMP IGNORES SUPREME COURT! TRUMP IS HITLER!!!!!!!!!!!......................
A bird in the hand......................
Always better! All they do is mock you when they fly to the bushes.
“All the MSM reports is:
TRUMP DICTATOR! TRUMP LAWLESS! TRUMP INCOMPETENT! IMPEACH TRUMP! TRUMP IGNORES SUPREME COURT! TRUMP IS HITLER!!!!!!!!!!!......................”
That is backfiring on them so they can keep right on trying it. Those phrases above are just hopium-heroin for purple-haired radicals who don’t matter.
Racial issues were steadily getting better till Obama was elected. Then it went to $hit and quick.
Obsessively bringing it up in everything and it still continues to this day. If we were so racist, how did we elected a black man as President-TWICE!
No one wants to answer that. Instead we have further divided our country into groups which get special privilege’s if they are the right kind, while whites and white men, in particular, are crapped on from every angle while we still pull the biggest load in EVERY way...
BTT
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