Anonymous ID: 3f47ec April 6, 2021, 7:02 a.m. No.13371074   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1076

 

Biden Transportation Department Uses Civil Rights Act of 1964 to Halt Texas Highway Widening Project

 

President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation, headed by former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, has halted a Texas highway expansion project on the grounds that it is “racist.”

 

You read that correctly.

 

According to Politico, a portion of Interstate 45 near Houston was set to be widened. On Thursday, Biden’s DOT decided to freeze it, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

 

Texas is one of seven states that is considered an “assignment state,” which means they can “serve as a proxy for the federal government when it comes to administering the National Environmental Policy Act,” Politico said.

 

As such, this project had already completed the environmental review process and been given a Record of Decision in February, which would seemingly give it a green light.

 

“[About] 1,079 residential housing units – both single-family and multi-family housing, 344 businesses, five places of worship and two schools would be displaced by this project,” said Harris County Judge Hidalgo to KTRK-TV. ''(Dora, at it, again)''

 

“Clearly the TXDOT blatantly violated [Title VI], recklessly violated it,” Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee told Politico. ''(DollarStoreHair, at it, again)''

 

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-transportation-department-uses-civil-rights-act-1964-halt-texas-highway-widening-project/?