一位参议院民主党拨款委员会高级成员称该提案“怪诞且反乌托邦”。出生率和结婚率较高的社区很快可能在争取联邦交通资金方面获得优势—这是特朗普政府长期追求的目标，但一位民主党拨款委员会高级成员称其为“怪诞且反乌托邦”。联邦交通管理局希望改革一个数十亿美元的项目，该项目帮助州和地方政府资助铁路改善和新建公交专用道等基础设施项目。公众对政府计划的反馈（该计划于10月1日推出）将接受至11月中旬。
A top Senate Democratic appropriator called the proposal “bizarre and dystopian.”Communities with high birth and marriage rates could soon gain an advantage in securing federal transit money — a long-sought goal of the Trump administration but one that a top Democratic appropriator calls “bizarre and dystopian.”The Federal Transit Administration wants to revamp a multibillion-dollar program that helps state and local authorities fund infrastructure projects such as rail improvements and new bus lanes. Public feedback on the administration’s plan, which was rolled out Oct. 1, is being accepted through mid-November.
这一想法将满足交通部长肖恩·达菲的优先事项，即将拨款资金引导至出生率和结婚率高于全国平均水平的地区，这是他在去年初宣誓就职后不久推出的一项政策倡议。
The idea would fulfill a priority of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to steer grant money to parts of the country with birth and marriage rates higher than the national average, a policy initiative he unveiled shortly after being sworn into office early last year.
根据交通提案，如果某地区的平均出生率和结婚率达到、超过或略低于全国门槛，联邦交通管理局将承担项目成本的额外高达10个百分点。
Under the transit proposal, the FTA would cover up to 10 percentage points more of a project’s costs if an area’s average birth and marriage rates meet, exceed or are just below nationwide thresholds.