Trump’s ‘Grim Reaper’ Announces $11 Billion in Paused Projects — New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore

Kathryn Wilkens Oct 17th, 2025, 4:40 pm

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Trump Budget Director 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 celebratin

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