That means I can build more roads and bridges across the country, which is what everybody wants. And so, again, this is just common sense. Again, We're the Department of Transportation. We're not the Green New Deal Department. We're not the Social Justice Department. We build infrastructure. So get that stuff out of these proposals and these funding mechanisms and build infrastructure. In my city of New Orleans, we talked about this at the time. (12:52–12:59)
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