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Sean Duffy: “We have to look at them and say, well, maybe it's…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Public transportation has become an 'epidemic' of violence: Sean Duffy

Published | Video Starts at 00:53

And so we don't have a ton of equities at dot, but we do have money. Your federal tax dollars go to fund a lot of these transit systems across the country. And We have to look at them and say, well, maybe it's appropriate that we start pulling some of that money back. because I don't think the American taxpayer wants to pay for the homelessness and criminal element that harm little 23 year old girls like this who are going home from work from ordering a pizza that they're going to get stabbed in the neck. (00:53–00:58)

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Suggests reconsidering federal funding for transit systems due to issues like violence and homelessness.

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