<p>Two days before Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-stock-sales-trump-tariffs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-stock-sales-trump-tariffs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/sea</span><span class="invisible">n-duffy-stock-sales-trump-tariffs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#Tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/seanduffy/" rel="tag">#SeanDuffy</a> <a href="/tags/stocks/" rel="tag">#Stocks</a> <a href="/tags/trade/" rel="tag">#Trade</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#Economy</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
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<p>This one’s just plain <a href="/tags/weird/" rel="tag">#weird</a></p><p>The day after <a href="/tags/seanduffy/" rel="tag">#SeanDuffy</a> was confirmed as <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>’s transportation secretary, he signed a memo dictating how federal <a href="/tags/transportation/" rel="tag">#transportation</a> funds should be allocated.</p><p>The list of new criteria included one directive that stood out: All of the department’s grant & loan programs should prioritize projects in “communities with marriage & birthrates higher than the national average,” to the extent allowed by <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a>.</p><p>[a buses for pregnant women policy?]<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/trump-transportation-birth-rates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/trump-transportation-birth-rates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/</span><span class="invisible">politics/trump-transportation-birth-rates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>