Buttigieg’s DOT Spending $662M to Fix America’s Ports, But Only If The Projects Advances Destructive Far-Left Schemes (ESG)

Again, Democrats using taxpayer dollars to fund our own demise.

This is from Biden stooge, Pete Buttigieg, who has presided over the nation’s greatest failures: the biggest shutdown of U.S. aviation since the attacks of Sept 11, 2001. airline collapse, supply chain crisis, a string of transportation-related crises, logjams at major ports, multiple instances of mass flight cancellations by airlines, a proposed nationwide strike by railroad workers….

This feckless clown is in charge of delivering the largesse of the big infrastructure and domestic spending bills.

Now this….

Buttigieg’s DOT spending $662M to fix America’s ports, but only if the projects advance ESG, equity goals
Climate change, equity are among goals these projects must address

By Peter Kasperowicz | February 9, 2023: Fox News

NBC’s Chuck Todd asks Pete Buttigieg why Biden’s accomplishments are falling flat with the public

NBC’s Chuck Todd asks Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg why President Biden hasn’t been getting credit from the public for his achievements in office.

The Department of Transportation announced Thursday that it will award $662 million in grant funding to fix up the nation’s port infrastructure, but only if those ports advance ESG-style goals such as “equity,” “environmental justice” and serving underserved communities.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said America’s ports “play a central role in our supply chains” and that the grant funding will help ensure that battered U.S. supply chains are strengthened and the U.S. is positioned for “economic success.” Most of the funding announced was made available through the $1 trillion infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed in 2021.

But decisions to release these grants, which will be distributed under the department’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), will also depend on other factors that have nothing to do with unclogging supply chains and moving goods efficiently to customers.
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The Department of Transportation, led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, is prioritizing port projects that meet equity and climate goals as it awards grant funding.

The Department of Transportation, led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, is prioritizing port projects that meet equity and climate goals as it awards grant funding.
“MARAD will also consider how projects address climate change and sustainability, equity, and workforce development objectives,” the department said. Those are the same broad goals that the Biden administration has been supporting as it tries to impose environment, social and governance (ESG) goals on private investors.

According to MARAD’s announcement of the grants, officials will “seek to award projects” consistent with Biden’s 2021 executive order on “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”

“The Department also seeks to award projects that address equity and environmental justice, particularly for communities that have experienced decades of underinvestment and are most impacted by climate change, pollution, and environmental hazards,” consistent with another Biden order on “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.”

President Biden has supported ESG goals for both government and private entities.

President Biden has supported ESG goals for both government and private entities. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes / File)

The notice added that the department “intends to use” the funding to support “the free and fair choice to join a union and the incorporation of strong labor standards.”

It instructs applicants to explain “how their project will include an equity assessment that evaluates whether a project will create proportional impacts and remove transportation-related disparities to all populations in a project area.”
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The notice said the administration’s “Justice40” initiative must also be satisfied by port projects, a reference to the administration’s goal of making sure that 40% of certain federal programs flow to “underserved communities.”

“MARAD will consider the extent to which projects advance equity and Justice40 to promote fairness and opportunity and may prioritize those projects that receive higher ratings under this selection consideration,” it said.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Butt plug is pathetic and unqualified for any position. He was a horrible mayor. His only qualification was being queer. Which is normal for this pathetic administration which has no morals or ethics. He did nothing for the backup at the docks months ago. He will not do anything good now,

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turtlebrat

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

He needs to go on permanent maternity leave in hell.

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davedutchess

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

Personally I wqish he was dead.

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Jo8

1 year ago

Reply to  davedutchess

I could live with that, at least he’d be out of OUR misery.

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vinnynewyork

1 year ago

Frightening picture of Butt-a-gize … looks like the devil, or the world’s worst dictator … he scares me!

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Michael McCallion Sr

1 year ago

Not only is Meta/Facebook thrilled with buying the Democrat Fake News with Billions of U$ Campaign Donations. – Meta/Facebook actually set up the – political tool CBC -to actually weed out the support of Conservatives using the Billions of CDN $ Tax-Payer Annual Funding by Canada’s ‘ mandarin Federal Government to fact check ‘other’ [read Independent of Tax-Payer Funding] control during the recent election._MikeSr

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fir1

1 year ago

How is pissing away over 1/2 a trillion dollars of OUR TAX MONEY on this nonsense going to ” improve ” our ports and supply chains? Racial equity and climate change ? They are certifiably ready for the laughing academy .I wouldn’t be so pissed off about the ridiculous taxes I pay if they
were used for constructive things – But 400 million for 7 foreign countries several of which hate us – paying for THEIR border security while the clown China Joe intentionally leaves ours wide open to God only knows what’s simply walking in –

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Yah

1 year ago

Buttgag needs to plug his southern port asap. its leaking all over the floor.

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