"Russ Vought announced Friday on X that the Army Corps of Engineers would be pausing $11 billion in funding for lower-priority projects in the Democratic cities of New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore, and considering them for cancellation. The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers' ability to manage billions of dollars in projects, he wrote, before promising more information to come from the Army Corps of Engineers."
"In early October, President Donald Trump likened Vought to the Grim Reaper in a video posted to Truth Social, seemingly celebrating federal firings and cuts. Both Trump and Vought have continued to emphasize their focus on only cutting Democratic programs, with the president saying, That's the way it works. They wanted to do this, so we will give them a little taste of their own medicine, in a Cabinet meeting last week."
Russ Vought announced on X that the Army Corps of Engineers will pause more than $11 billion in funding for lower-priority projects in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore and consider those projects for cancellation. He characterized the move as a consequence of a Democratic-led shutdown that has drained the Corps' ability to manage billions in projects. President Trump and Vought have framed actions as targeted cuts to Democratic programs, with Trump praising firings and Vought predicting large-scale federal terminations potentially north of 10,000. A federal judge temporarily blocked planned layoffs, citing the human cost.
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