"Shortly after the first government shutdown since 2019 began earlier this month, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced that he was freezing $8 billion in infrastructure projects exclusively in states that voted for Kamala Harris. The projects that Vought consigned to funding purgatory included a multibillion-dollar renovation and expansion of the Hudson Tunnel from New Jersey to New York City and an extension of the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line."
"Since his election, Trump has talked about and treated blue states not as equals under America's increasingly distressed system of federalism but rather like defeated vassals who must pay tribute to their new emperor in the form of policy capitulations and abrogations of their constitutional rights. The cumulative impact of these transgressions-inflicted under the explicit mandate to make blue states suffer-is the gravest threat to the centuries-old constitutional union of American states since the Civil War."
After a government shutdown, the Office of Management and Budget froze $8 billion in infrastructure projects exclusively in states that voted for Kamala Harris. Affected projects include a multibillion-dollar Hudson Tunnel renovation and expansion and a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line extension. President Donald Trump framed the cuts as removal of Democrat-funded items. The administration has treated blue states as subordinate, demanding policy concessions and undermining constitutional rights. The cumulative actions create a grave threat to the constitutional union comparable to the Civil War. Federal agents have arrested Democratic leaders and assaulted at least one Democratic senator. Democratic leadership must recognize and mobilize to resist.
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