Pete Buttigieg’s woke agenda exposed in shocking transportation documents

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Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden stuffed America’s infrastructure with radical ideology when no one was looking.

But President Trump’s new Transportation Secretary is wiping it clean.

And Buttigieg’s woke agenda has been exposed in shocking transportation documents that left taxpayers fuming.

Trump Administration cleaning up Buttigieg’s infrastructure mess

President Donald Trump promised to get America building again without the woke ideology that hampered infrastructure development during the Biden-Harris years.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is making good on that promise by approving 76 more infrastructure grants worth over $607 million, bringing the total to 405 grants valued at nearly $5 billion.

But it’s what Secretary Duffy is removing from these grants that has people talking.

The Trump Administration inherited a staggering 3,200 unobligated infrastructure grants from Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation. These grants were announced with great fanfare but were never actually funded or implemented.

While reviewing the mountain of paperwork, officials discovered these grants were loaded with radical left-wing mandates that had nothing to do with building roads, bridges, or airports.

"Under President Trump’s leadership, America is building again," Secretary Duffy stated. "The last administration claimed to ‘build back better,’ but they didn’t build back anything. Instead, they inserted wasteful social justice and green mandates into grants that drove up construction costs and delayed projects."

Radical left-wing requirements uncovered in Buttigieg’s documents

The newly released documents expose just how far Pete Buttigieg went to turn infrastructure projects into vehicles for his radical agenda.

Documents from a Colorado I-70 road project at Floyd Hill show Buttigieg forced states to jump through ridiculous hoops. The project paperwork demanded a "racial equity impact analysis" and made Colorado implement "equity-focused policies" that did absolutely nothing to fix potholes or make the road safer.

Transportation bureaucrats didn’t stop there. The same Floyd Hill paperwork, found in Schedules H and I, shows Colorado had to pretend their highway construction somehow supported "climate action plans" and use something called "EJSCREEN" to study neighborhoods near the construction.

Transportation officials were even required to detail how they would help "underserved communities" and incorporate "equity and inclusion" into everything from hiring to material sourcing.

These mandates weren’t created by Congress. They were inserted into grant paperwork by Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation, deliberately designed to advance their social agenda.

Buttigieg’s green and DEI mandates cost taxpayers billions

The financial impact of these ideological requirements was substantial.

Road construction costs skyrocketed approximately 70% under Buttigieg’s watch, with the extra paperwork and compliance expenses adding months to project timelines and millions to budgets.

The Department of Transportation is now removing these mandates, including social cost of carbon accounting, mandatory greenhouse gas emission reporting, and discriminatory DEI requirements.

Removing these mandates that weren’t mandated by Congress will save time and taxpayer dollars across thousands of projects nationwide.

Efficiency over ideology

The Department of Transportation is now focusing on obligation and implementation rather than ideology.

The latest 76 grants approved include funding for:

     5 Airport Improvement Program projects ($30 million);

     6 Airport Terminals Program projects ($32 million);

     8 National Culvert projects ($33 million);

     17 Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program projects ($126 million); and

     12 Railroad Crossing Elimination projects ($36 million).

Secretary Duffy has promised to continue moving at "lightning speed" to clear the backlog and get infrastructure projects underway across America.

The backlog represents an unprecedented level of bureaucratic inefficiency from Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation. Of the 3,200 unobligated grants inherited by the Trump Administration, only about 13% have been processed so far.

If current trends continue, it could take years to work through all the grants announced but never implemented by Buttigieg’s department.

The Department now promises to prioritize actual construction over ideological compliance, focusing on building infrastructure that benefits all Americans without discriminatory mandates or green new scam requirements.