The White House is withholding billions of dollars of funding for mass transit projects in Chicago as part of President Donald 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.

The U.S. Department of Transportation wrote in a follow-up post that the two projects were under administrative review to determine whether they violated a new interim rule that bars race- and sex-based contracting requirements from federal grants.

For nearly 60 years, an executive order signed by President

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