The Federalist On his second day as Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy signed a memo reorienting all federal transportation funding toward supporting marriage and families, prioritizing communities that have higher rates of marriage and birth.
“To the maximum extent permitted by law, DOT-supported or -assisted programs and activities, including without limitation, all DOT grants, loans, contracts, and DOT-supported or -assisted State contracts, shall prioritize projects and goals that … mitigate the unique impacts of DOT programs, policies, and activities on families and family-specific difficulties, such as the accessibility of transportation to families with young children, and give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” Duffy’s memo states.
The memo has the potential to create a massive sea-change in how the federal government incentivizes families. Right now, many grant programs from the Department of Transportation focus on packing as many people into as little space as possible, like apartments, and optimize the use of public transit. Policies like that tend to reduce birth rates, making big cities suboptimal for family growth.
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