Posted on 10/04/2025 9:46:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House has cut or paused billions in funding to Democratic-run cities and states since the federal government came to a halt.
President Trump has embarked on a legally dubious campaign to weaponize the federal budget during a contentious government shutdown, halting more than $27 billion in approved funding in a bid to punish Democratic-led cities and states.
Rather than broker a legislative truce or seek to ameliorate the fallout of a costly fiscal stalemate, the president has leveraged the crisis to exact revenge on rivals, slash federal spending and pressure Democrats into accepting his political demands.
Since the shutdown started on Wednesday, the Trump administration has canceled or delayed federal aid to 16 states, most of them run by Democrats. In the latest example, Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, said on Friday that the administration would halt about $2.1 billion in approved funding for long-planned transit improvements in Chicago.
Mr. Vought claimed the pause was necessary to ensure that the city, which is led by a Democratic mayor in a state with a Democratic governor, had not engaged in “race-based contracting.”
The White House has also targeted New York, the home state of Democrats’ congressional leaders, and canceled nearly $7.6 billion in federal green-energy funding, predominantly in Democratic-led states. On Friday, the Trump administration said it could look to slash unspecified aid to Portland soon, after earlier stripping away some of Oregon’s infrastructure money.
“Without a doubt, blue states are on the front lines of the attacks,” said New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, a Democrat. “They’re coming after us.”
Throughout the week, the president’s deputies maintained that they were not politicizing the shutdown and that they sought only to save money and prevent...
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Interesting quote rom a public notable of a few years back.
OMG!!!!
President Trump is doing what every other president has done in one way or the other.....
OH OH The horror....
All you demoRATS are doing by using your lock step left media to whine about this is to show how ignorant and cowardly you are.
PLEASE continue it causing you to bleed voters.....
Bingo!
That is the theme behind the "defund the police" clamor and the headline of this news article.
"If one impedes the revolution, they are a counterrevolutionary and are to be eliminated."
(Bolshevik rationale to defend the revolution.")
It is an "in our face" argument, and many do not realize it.
There is a serious question of who it is that is losing.
It used to be that only somewhat veiled, fairly isolated even illegal groups spoke like this; now it is various state governments using MSM bullhorns.
The list of reasons why the Democrats deserve the comeuppance they’re getting from Trump is so long that it’s almost impossible to fully recount. Great to see Trump playing hardball. They richly deserve it.
The cruelty is the point.
Like that's a bad thing?
White House has cut or paused billions in funding to Democratic-run cities and states since the federal government came to a halt.
Democrats hate it when tax payer money is saved.
These people don’t make any sense.
If the democrats refuse to give money for the federal government to operate how can they claim it is political revenge to shut programs down?
To avoid this all they have to do is restart the government by approving the funds in a continuing resolution.
The communist libs taught us to “never let a good crisis go to waste...”
Time to turn the tables, BIG TIME, Mr. President. Give a heckuva good dose of their own putrid BS.
If the democrats refuse to give money for the federal government to operate how can they claim it is political revenge to shut programs down?
because their rank and file believes all their lies...can’t think for themselves...
and they didnt
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