The Ministry of Transport (DOT) has two memos of the Biden Administration That the agency said that incorrectly aligned priorities serve a ‘social justice and environmental agenda’.
The two memorandums issued during the BIDEN administration below Secretary Pete Buttigieg Decided objectives such as “Restarting communities and reflecting the recording of disadvantaged and under -represented groups in the planning, project selection and design process” and “new and emerging technologies such as charging stations for electric vehicles,” said Dot.
“Under the leadership of President Trump, the Ministry of Transport returns to the basics – building critical infrastructure projects that move people and trade safely,” ” Transport secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “The previous administration has surpassed the congress in an attempt to push a radical social and environmental agenda on the American people. This was an act of federal over -range. It is stopping now.”
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Traffic along the Glades Road exchange of the Turnpike in Boca Raton, Florida, on February 25, 2022. (John McCall/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
In particular, the Department made the efforts of the memos when it came to cutting back on “greenhouse gas emissions” and “stock initiatives”.
The memos focused on how the billions can best be used in the financing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 throughout the country. Neither memo is currently available on the Federal Highway Administration website.
However, this is not the first time that the memos are confronted with control.
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States in January 2023 asked the federal highway manager Shamen Bhatt to lose the “policy for the use of two-part means for infrastructure legislation to build a better America memo to prevent the general mission of taxpayer infrastructure investments.
Transport secretary Sean Duffy focuses on the congestion of New York. (Eduardo Munozalvarez/Uitker/Samuel Corum/SIPA/Bloomberg via Getty images)
“We have supported the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) because it represents the most important infusion of investments in our infrastructure since the establishment of the Interstate Highway system in the mid-1950s,” wrote the Chamber with various other groups, including American truck associations and the Association of American Railroad.
“It is also a carefully negotiated and balanced package of policy reforms and targeted national investments that will make the lives of Americans better. However, the memo of December 16 caused a lot of confusion within the transport community, since the guidance was intended to serve as an overarching policy framework that priority was submitted to the law, which was added to the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law in the law. submitted to the bill of the month, “the letter added with certain projects that had the opportunity to be under the law on the month,”.
President Donald Trump, right, listens as transport secretary Sean Duffy speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House on Thursday, January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC (Alex Brandon/AP photo)
DOT has focused on various liberal policy measures in the early days of Duffy’s term of office in function, including ordering a compliance audit of the high-speed rail project in California and asks for the Manhattan Congestion Tolls program to end. In the congress, other transport -related efforts are investigated, such as wanting to reject efforts for electric vehicles in the United States Postal Service.
