BREAKING: MAGA Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy gets caught in a humiliating lie as he attempts to give Donald Trump credit for trains that President Barack Obama ordered into production.
Trump hates Obama almost as much as he wants to be him…
“[The trains are] a better experience for the American public,” Duffy said. “And again, that’s what we do, we serve the American people with great experiences and that’s what this is about today.”
Duffy was visiting Washington D.C.’s Union Station, which Trump has seized control over as part of his ever-expanding fascist takeover of the capital.
Duffy praised Trump for Amtrak’s new high-speed trains as “part of @POTUS’ vision to Make Travel Great again.” The trains were actually ordered by Obama when he was still president and ironically enough Duffy, who was a Congressman at the time, voted against the bill that paid for them.
Obama signed the $2.4 billion investment into the cutting edge trains in 2016 and the 28 trains were funded through money from his 2015 $305 billion FAST Act. Duffy voted against that legislation. Because of the long timeline for designing, manufacturing, and then safety-testing trains, the are only just now entering service — which is why Trump thinks that he can take credit for him. As usual, he’s assuming that his voters are too lazy, stupid, and gullible to do basic fact-checking.
What’s more, the trains are also benefitting from President Biden’s historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because that bill pumped $66 billion worth of investment into rail, amounting to the largest funding boost for Amtrak since it began receiving federal funding roughly 50 years ago. $22 billion of that money went to repairs, replacements, and funding new projects.
When Biden was trying to pass the bill, Trump tried to torpedo it, proving that he cares far more about political wins than he does about improving the country.
Of course, lying to voters is nothing new for these MAGA politicians. It’s their entire brand. They aren’t interested in actually solving problems or improving the lives of voters, they’re interested in bragging, taking credit, and then moving on to a new lie. It falls to all of us to call them out every single time they try it.
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