Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy introduced the termination of $54M in radical DEI and inexperienced agenda grants on the Division of Transportation.
The seven college grants concentrate on decarbonization, gender security, and air pollution publicity.
The Daily Wire exclusive shared:
WASHINGTON—The Division of Transportation is terminating $54 million value of recently-discovered “woke college grants,” The Each day Wire has realized, arguing that the grants superior radical agendas that ran counter to the division’s mission.
Seven colleges acquired grants which Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy instructed The Each day Wire have been advancing a “radical DEI and inexperienced agenda” that’s wasteful and counter to the Trump administration’s priorities.
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“The American folks have zero curiosity in tens of millions of their tax {dollars} funding analysis on the intersection of gender non-conforming folks and infrastructure inequality or whether or not highway enchancment tasks are racist,” Duffy added. “It’s time to inject a dose of actuality again into our larger schooling system, and that begins with ending these wasteful and divisive grants.”
The Transportation Division instructed The Each day Wire that underneath theSan Jose State College’s Mineta Consortium for Rising, Environment friendly, and Secure Transportation, $6M was earmarked for analysis on “intermodal inequities, notably how enhancements to auto journey can profit larger revenue, typically white drivers, whereas miserable transit ridership potential and depriving it of revenues vital to offer complete providers to decrease revenue, typically BIPOC folks and analysis into utilizing crowdsourcing and collaborative planning to deal with security issues of ladies and gender non-conforming folks utilizing public transportation.”
Secretary Duffy underscored the Division’s new focus, telling DW, “The earlier administration turned the Division of Transportation into the Division of Woke.”
“I’ve centered the Division on what issues; security, making journey nice once more, and constructing massive, stunning infrastructure tasks.”
.@USDOT is injecting a dose of actuality again into the upper schooling system.⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/pWqf5QBHKX pic.twitter.com/xQeb7tF5Ve
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) May 2, 2025
