# Department of Transportation scraps memos pushing 'equity initiatives' | Fox News

## Transportation
### 'Back to basics': Top Trump agency turns tables on Biden-era memos pushing 'equity initiatives'

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says DOT is 'building critical infrastructure projects that move people and move commerce safely'

  
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Published March 11, 2025 12:45pm EDT | Updated March 12, 2025 6:55am EDT

The Department of Transportation (DOT) scrapped two memos from the  that the agency said misaligned priorities to serve a "social justice and environmental agenda."

The two memorandums issued during the Biden administration under  listed objectives such as "reconnecting communities and reflecting the inclusion of disadvantaged and under-represented groups in the planning, project selection, and design process" and "accommodating new and emerging technologies like electric vehicle charging stations," according to DOT.

Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Transportation is getting back to basics — building critical infrastructure projects that move people and move commerce safely, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The previous administration flouted Congress in an attempt to push a radical social and environmental agenda on the American people. This was an act of federal overreach. It stops now.





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DOT has taken aim at various liberal policies in the early days of Duffy’s tenure in office, including ordering a compliance audit of the California High-Speed Rail project and is asking for the Manhattan congestion tolls program to end. In Congress, other transportation-related efforts are being scrutinized, such as wanting to get rid of electric-vehicle efforts in the .



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