A new memo from the Trump administration prioritizes transportation projects in states with high birthrates, those that comply with federal immigration enforcement and those without vaccine or mask mandates.
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A new U.S. Department of Transportation memo says the agency will prioritize projects in communities with high birth and marriage rates and those that require local cooperation or compliance with federal immigration enforcement.
That could jeopardize the flow of federal transportation dollars to Colorado, where state laws limit how much local law enforcement can cooperate with federal immigration officials and where the state’s fertility rate is among the lowest in the nation.