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Sean Duffy: “Your federal tax dollars go to fund a lot of these transit…”

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 00:47

And public transportation has become an epidemic of violence and homelessness across the country. 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 … (00:47–00:53)

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Asserts that federal tax dollars are used to fund transit systems nationwide.

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