The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will immediately pause, and consider canceling, over $11 billion in projects due to the government shutdown , Trump administration budget chief Russell Vought said Friday.

"The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers' ability to manage billions of dollars in projects," Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said in an X post.

The paused funds pertain to "lower-priority projects" in cities including New York, San Francisco, Boston and Baltimore, Vought said.

The Army Corps of Engineers, which provides a wide range of public engineering services and comprises more than 37,000 civilians and soldiers, did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment on Vought's post.

Vought, a co-author o

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