The White House is withholding billions of dollars of funding for mass transit projects in Chicago as part of Trump’s government shutdown revenge campaign against Democrats. (www.thedailybeast.com)

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“$2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects—specifically the Red Line Extension and the Red and Purple Modernization Project—have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting,” budget director and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought wrote in a post on X.

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[-] sgtgig@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

They genuinely don't care. They don't care about solving and real world problems, just their fake made up ones while making billionaires richer.

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