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Brief of diving:
- In a letter of April 24, the Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy warned Dot funding recipients Against diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which said they violate the federal law. Duffy also told dealers to cooperate with immigration and the application of US customs and other federal officials or to face “application actions”.
- Duffy said that the dealers who violate these policies could lose transportation of transport. “It is the policy of the Department to award and continue to provide federal financial assistance only to the recipients who fulfill their legal obligations,” according to the letter.
- The dowry can audit the dealerships and regain the financing used for unpunished activities, according to the letter. Duffy urged the transport agencies to contact a Dot representative proactively to ensure that they fulfill.
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The new DUFFY letter lays dowry funding recipients, citing cases in which the dealerships did not cooperate with immigration’s application and issued driver’s licenses to people in the United States illegally and warns that these actions “can lead to civil and criminal liability.” He also told dealerships that he ensures that they hire subcontractors and other companies that are allowed to work in the United States and to use exclusively legally allowed workers.
Since he assumed the post, Duffy has authorized a series of actions To advance Trump’s directive to “terminate the policies of awakening” and Slash regulations, while promising to prefer the grant to regions with birth rates greater than average. Last month, the dowry retreated a policy of Biden’s time that included Environmental and social considerations for projects It is financed.
In an audience of April 2, Duffy defended the Trump administration freezing In already approved projects, so that the agencies can review them for mentions on climate change, environmental justice or equity. He did not say if the Grant awards that are not yet completed could be terminated, but he promulgated the will of Congress when funding the infrastructure: “I will not celebrate any project.”
Duffy’s letter also said that funding recipients should not participate in “discriminatory actions” as contracts, hiring or other policies and procedures are administered, and to make decisions of merit -based staff. Dealers are also prohibited from assigning “suspicious classifications” of prizes.
“Whether or not they are described in neutral terms, no policy, program or activity provided for in a prohibited classification, including policies or discriminatory practices designed to achieve the so -called” diversity, equity and inclusion “or” Dei “objectives, allegedly violates federal law,” according to the letter.
In a Interview Thursday in Fox BusinessDuffy reiterated that the states led by Democrats who do not comply with the interpretation of the Federal Law of the Trump Administration will see the reduction in transportation of transport, AOL reported.
“Hopefully, these states are encouraged to adjust to North -American principles and policies, which the President has established. If they do so, they have no problem,” said Duffy in Fox’s interview. “But if they do not fulfill it, we will not approve their grants and the flow of billions of dollars to their states.”
