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.
“$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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Chicagoans should send them pictures of badly decayed bridge supports to prove it is needed.
What makes you think the ones in charge of this shutdown would care at all?
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.
General strike when?