The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) cancelled an upcoming internship program after outgoing Biden officials removed signs of “diversity” elements, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The FTA changed the name of its “Diversity in Federal Transit” internship program to “BOOST” sometime in 2024 before President Donald Trump returned to office in January, archived webpages show. That switch, however, did not spare the program from the Republican president’s reshaping of the federal bureaucracy.
“We are writing to inform you that the Summer 2025 Federal Transit Administration Building Opportunities and Outcomes for Students in Transit (FTA BOOST) Internship Program has been cancelled due to recent Executive Orders,” reads an email the DCNF obtained from the Washington Center, a nonprofit that has partnered with the FTA to recruit…
