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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Trump wants to tie transportation funds to birth rates

The Trump administration is planning to revamp a federal investment program that grants funding to major transport projects so that areas with higher birth and marriage rates stand to receive extra capital.

The Federal Transit Administration, part of the Department of Transportation, is currently seeking to rewrite its guidance for the award of Capital Investment Grants, through which billions of dollars of infrastructure funding are handed out every year.

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