The Trump administration announced Friday it was freezing $2.1 billion in funding for infrastructure projects in Chicago, marking the latest instance in recent days of the White House withholding money for projects in blue states.

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought wrote in a post on social platform X that the money being put on hold was designated for an extension of the city's Red Line and the Red and Purple Modernization Project

He added that the decision was made to "ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting."

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