A vague tweet posted by a top Trump administration official last Friday afternoon sent state officials in Massachusetts scrambling .

Russell Vought, director of President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, said the administration was withholding $11 billion that the Army Corps of Engineers had pledged to infrastructure projects in some Democratic-led cities, including Boston.

State officials feared that it might include a high-stakes project elsewhere in the state: the replacement of the two Cape Cod bridges, using $600 million in Army Corps dollars. Vought’s tweet said the government would be “considering [the projects] for cancellation because of the government shutdown.

But a week later, state officials have no indication the money has actually been held up, and the project m

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