CHICAGO (WTVO) — More than $2 billion in federal infrastructure funding awarded to the Chicago Transit Authority is under review by the Trump administration, raising concerns about the future of two major transit projects.

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Friday announced an interim final rule prohibiting race- and sex-based contracting requirements in federally funded projects. As part of the rule’s implementation, the department said it is reviewing whether the CTA’s Red Line Extension and Red and Purple Modernization Program include “unconstitutional practices.”

“To continue implementation of this rule, USDOT today sent letters to the Chicago Transit Authority to inform them that two projects... are also under administrative review,” the department said in a statement. “The re

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