Steube threatens to pull funding from WMATA unless it renames to WMAGA

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Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) wants to rename the Washington, D.C., Metrorail to the “Trump Train” and has threatened to withhold federal funding unless the name change takes place.

Steube introduced a one-page bill to rename Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or WMATA, to Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access, or WMAGA, in honor of President Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again.”

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