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What Are University Transportation Centers — And Why Did Secretary Duffy Decimate Their Budgets?

May 19, 2025/

Earlier this month, U.S. DOT issued a scathing memo announcing the repeal of $54 million in “woke university grants,” which the agency said had been “used to advance a radical DEI and green agenda that were both wasteful and ran counter to the transportation priorities of the American people.”

University Transportation Centers are “where innovation happens.” Earlier this month, though, the Trump administration took a sledgehammer to their budgets.


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