Leading House Democrat praises Buttigieg’s plan to spend $20 million on female crash dummies

A proposed plan for the fiscal 2024 budget from the Department of Transportation, which includes spending $20 million on female crash dummies, received praise from the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.

During an appearance by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) praised Buttigieg’s proposal for the new crash test dummies. She said the secretary plans to make “important investments to address the road safety crisis.”

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DeLauro described the money for the new crash dummies as “critical funding,” according to footage obtained from Yeshiva World News.

“This will start to fight the gender inequity among vehicle safety and crash victims,” said DeLauro.

DeLauro also mentioned that using female crash dummies is “an area I’ve written” to Buttigieg about.

The Department of Transportation asked for the $20 million “to support cutting-edge safety and accessibility research initiatives,” which include developing test dummies “that represents small-sized adult females.”

The $20 million would also be used to support research on “the impact of driver distraction from in-vehicle technology interfaces” and on vehicle design considerations to improve accessibility for people with disabilities, according to the proposed plan.

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DeLauro’s comments come a day after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) revealed his debt ceiling legislation on Wednesday. In it, he proposed to raise the debt ceiling over the next year either by $1.5 trillion or until March 31, 2024, whichever comes first.

The plan would seek to cool inflation and limit government spending by reducing discretionary funds to pre-pandemic levels and capping budget increases at 1% each year. The plan would also “claw back billions of dollars of unspent COVID spending that has sat for the last two years.”