By CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, the White House budget director said Friday, expanding funding fights that have targeted Democratic areas during the government shutdown .

The pause affects a long-awaited plan to extend the city’s Red Line train. The money was “put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting,” budget director Russ Vought wrote on social media.

FILE – A Chicago Transit Authority train pulls into the new Damen Ave. station just two blocks from the United Center, Aug. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Vought made a similar announcement earlier this week involving New York, where he said $18 billion for infras

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