Commentary: Trump Administration’s Transportation Formula Would Penalize Many Rural Virginia Areas that Voted Strongly for Him

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Commentary: Trump Administration’s Transportation Formula Would Penalize Many Rural Virginia Areas that Voted Strongly for Him

This story was originally published by Cardinal News.President Donald Trump’s secretary of transportation has issued a four-page directive on how the department’s funds should be used. It carries the innocuous subject line “Ensuring Reliance Upon Sound Economic Analysis In Department of Transportation Policies, Programs and Activities.”That would normally be a sleep-inducing bureaucratic memo except for the curiosity of point 5, section f, subse…