The White House This Friday has announced the suspension of federal aid for infrastructure projects in the city of Chicagobastion of the opposition of the Democratic Party, by value of 2,100 million dollars After denouncing that local authorities promote a “racial hiring policy” that unfairly favors the black population.
The director of the White House Budget Office and a prominent ideologist of the Trump administration, Russell Vought, has confirmed in his social network account X the suspension of the federal financing of the project to expand the red line of the city subway and the project of modernization of the red and dwelling lines “to ensure that money does not flow through contracts based on the breed”.
VOUGHT recalled that the US Transport Department announced this week that neither the race nor the gender would be conditions in federal financing requirements, in a new offensive against the integration policies of the last Democratic Administration led by the then President Joe Biden.
The paralysis of the projects in Chicago adds to two other revisions of infrastructure initiatives in another of the great Democratic centers of the country, New York City, where both the transport department and the VOough office investigate the hiring processes for the works of the Metro of the Second Avenue and the reforms of the Hudson River Tunnel worth 18,000 million dollars.
“The American people,” said the Transport Department in a statement, “the race or gender of construction workers, pipe installers or electricians does not care: they just want these huge projects to be constructed and quickly built.”
The closure of the government will indefinitely prolong these revisions
The Transportation Department has not given date for the end of these suspensions because it does not know when the financing contracts will end since the Government has been in the state of paralysis since Wednesday.
This freezing of the projects in Chicago thus relates tangentially to the current crisis caused by the disagreement between the ruler Republican Party and the Democratic opposition on budgetary issues.
The White House deposits the total responsibility for the closure of the Government “that has negatively affected the resources of the Department of Transport to carry out this important analysis.”
“We urge the Democrats of Congress to stop kidnapping the Federal Government Budget so that the United States Department of Transportation can resume the important work of the US people,” concludes the statement.
