The Trump administration has frozen $2.1 billion in federal transit funding for Chicago. Trump has now frozen at least $28 billion in funding for Democratic cities and states. Only Democratic cities and states, eh? Sounds like retaliation to me.

Reuters reports :

President Donald Trump's administration froze $2.1 billion in Chicago transit funding on Friday, starving another Democratic city of funds as a bid to end the government shutdown failed again in the Senate.

On the shutdown's third day, Trump ramped up pressure on Democrats to end the standoff and agree to a Republican plan that would restore government funding. But that failed in a 54-44 Senate vote, short of the chamber's 60-vote standard.

The administration has now frozen at least $28 billion in funding for Democratic citi

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