The Trump administration stops $ 2.1 billion for infrastructure projects in Chicago, amidst the closure

WASHINGTON-The Trump administration announced on Friday that it was putting $ 2.1 billion in financing infrastructure projects in Chicago, the latest step to target democracy cities during the closure of the government.

The director of the administration and budget office, Russell Fion, said in a After x Funding is “specifically the extension of the red line and the red and purple modernization project.” He said, “He was suspended to ensure that funding is not flowing through the race -based contract.”

The Ministry of Transport said that the decision to stop stopping the financing comes after it issued a temporary final base this week that prevents “contracting and sex contracting requirements from federal scholarships.” She said on Fridays to the Transit Authority in Chicago to notify officials that the projects “are subject to administrative review to determine whether any unconstitutional practices occur.”

The ministry said in its announcement: “The American people are not interested in race or gender construction workers, or pipelifters, or electricians. They only want these huge projects that were recently built quickly and efficiently.”

He added that the government closure “negatively affected the resources of the administration’s employment to implement this important analysis.”

“We urge the Democrats in Congress to stop keeping the federal government budget to be proofs so that Usdot can return to the important work of the American people,” the ministry statement said.

Illinois Governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

President Donald Trump and administration officials have warned that they had planned to target the programs preferred by Democrats during the closure of the government. The White House did not respond to the request to comment on the cities that the administration might plan to target after that, noting NBC news to the management and budget office for more information.

This stoppage in the Chicago Rail Project project after the Vogue announced on Wednesday, the first day of the government’s closure, that the administration was putting $ 18 billion for two infrastructure projects in New York City. It includes a new traveler rail tunnel under the Hudson River and expanding the metro line on the second street.

The freezing of money for projects in influencing the components of the leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer and the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, who lead the democratic opposition in Congress to the bills of short -term government laws.

Separately, the Ministry of Energy announced on Thursday that it will finish $ 7.56 billion in financial prizes for 223 projects linked to energy. Democrats on the Committee for credits in the House of Representatives said that funding targeted 16 countries led by democracy, including 108 provinces in Congress represented by Democrats and 28 representatives by Republicans.