The federal Department of Transportation has issued a memo ordering programs supported by the agency to prioritize funding projects for communities with “marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”

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Memo Directs Funds According to Marriage, Birth Rates

A memo obtained by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein made the rounds on social media Thursday after it instructed staff to prioritize funding for areas with higher marriage and birth rates.The memo appears to be from President Donald Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and came with th...

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The memo also said recipients of federal transportation dollars must cooperate with immigration enforcement, a hit to so-called sanctuary cities.

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“The Department of Transportation has released a memo ordering that programs supported or assisted by the agency prioritize funding projects for communities that have above-average marriage and birth rates,” the HuffPost reports. “Newly-confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy buried the oddly specific requirement by describing the Wednesday memo as focused on economic growth, rather than population growth, and echoed President Donald Trump…

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New DOT Secretary Sean Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, wants transportation funding prioritized in areas with higher birth rates.

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Wisconsin road funding could change under Sean Duffy's order to prioritize higher birth, marriage rates

Stop watching the movie, get to procreating! Photo (2006): Bruce Fingerhood, Creative Commons License 2.0Donald Trump’s new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who qualified for the job by being on MTV’s “The Real World” and later on Fox News, has been in the public spotlight because of Wednesday night’s aviation disaster in Washington DC. Yesterday, Duffy took part in Donald Trump’s unhinged press conference, adding little information on the c…

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