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We don’t love to inundate your inbox, but for the second straight day, there’s breaking news out of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Today, the agency says it will withhold $18 billion in funding for two key projects because — get this! — they adhere to federal diversity hiring laws that President Trump thinks are unconstitutional.

David Meyer has the breaking story.

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