According to recent reports, the Trump administration is trying to cut transit funding to every state, fundamentally changing the way federal transportation policy has operated for more than four decades. The administration has been trying to reduce funding for months by tying grants to birth rates and banning certain types of transportation projects altogether like those related to pedestrian safety and bike lanes. This latest action is both an economic and political disaster: it will worsen the escalating affordability crisis and take away states’ ability to direct transportation dollars to benefit working people.

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    A populace that doesn’t have mobility is much easier to oppress.

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      Ironic considering the MAGA crowd complained about 15-minute cities. Don’t want little Bobby having a school, library, park and stores within walking and cycling distance from Mommy and Daddy’s two-story, HOA-approved house.

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      I think it’s way simpler than that: trying to help his oil and car industry friends

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      “I couldn’t make it to the revolution because I was stuck in traffic.”