White Home halts $2.1bn of Chicago infrastructure funding
The federal authorities put $2.1bn earmarked for Chicago infrastructure initiatives on maintain, workplace and administration and funds director Russ Vought stated on Friday, in one other jab at a Democrat-led metropolis in the course of the US authorities shutdown.
Vought wrote on X that initiatives affected included the Pink Line extension – which was set to interrupt floor subsequent 12 months and prolong public transport to underserved areas within the metropolis – in addition to modernization work to quite a lot of transit strains.
Vought wrote on social media Friday that the cash was “placed on maintain to make sure funding is just not flowing by way of race-based contracting”.
He made an analogous announcement earlier this week involving New York, the place Vought stated $18m for infrastructure could be paused, together with funding for a brand new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River.
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Senate Majority Chief John Thune stated that any additional cuts to the federal authorities by the Trump administration is the Democrats’ fault.
“You’re additionally handing the administration a chance to do issues that in all probability, typically, you’re not going to agree with,” Thune stated about Democrats.
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“The results are very critical on actual folks, actual Individuals,” Speaker Mike Johnson stated, when requested about earlier feedback saying that “persons are having enjoyable with this,” with reference to federal authorities slashing and potential layoffs.
“We assist federal workers who do a fantastic job in all these totally different areas, however what they’re making an attempt to have enjoyable with, making an attempt to make mild of, is to level out the absurdity of the Democrats’ place, and so they’re utilizing memes and all of the instruments of social media to do this,” Johnson stated.
“Some folks discover that entertaining, however on the finish of the day, the selections are exhausting ones and I’m telling you, they’re not taking any pleasure in that.”
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President Trump is “trolling the Democrats,” Speaker Mike Johnson stated, when discussing additional cuts to the federal authorities amid the shutdown.
“I imply, sure, as a result of that’s what President Trump does and persons are having enjoyable with this,” Johnson stated. “However on the finish of the day, the selections are powerful ones.”
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Speaker Mike Johnson stated that, because of the authorities shutdown, the White Home has to “prioritize” what to chop in response to the federal government shutdown.
“It serves the taxpayers to ship much less of their heard-earned cash to Washington and hold extra of their pockets,” Johnson stated, including that current laws handed by the Trump White Home goals to do this.
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Senate Majority Chief John Thune stated that Democrats have a “fourth alternative” to vote later immediately to open up the federal government.
“They’ve taken hostage the federal authorities – and, by extension, the American folks, who’re the one losers right here,” Thune stated.
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Senate Majority Chief John Thune stated that Democrats are solely making an attempt to select a struggle with the Trump administration “to fulfill their far-left political base, far-left activist organizations” and blamed the shutdown on that social gathering.
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Speaker Mike Johnson there are “extra reforms coming” to the Inexpensive Care Act, with out elaborating what these adjustments could also be.
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Speaker Mike Johnson claimed that undocumented immigrants have been receiving Medicaid, which is what led to the key adjustments within the Large Lovely Act.
Undocumented immigrants are largely ineligible for federal well being advantages. Some documented immigrants do qualify for Medicaid.
The Large Lovely Act made main cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, whereas offering main tax breaks to the rich.
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Speaker Mike Johnson stated that the Large Lovely Act, signed by Trump earlier this summer time, helped eradicate “fraud and abuse of our well being system.”
Johnson stated the adjustments to Medicaid occurred to “assist present extra and higher well being providers.”
Healthcare has been a key level of competition for the Democrats amid the continued negotiations for presidency funding.
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Mike Johnson once more blamed the Democratic Get together throughout a press convention, because the third day of the federal government shutdown continues.
“I would like Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren and AOC, and everyone else who’s been making an attempt to spin this fact to observe and attempt to refute what I’m about to indicate you,” Johnson stated, as he pointed to a printed picture of the counter-proposal invoice submitted by Democrats.
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Mike Johnson additionally instructed Scripps Information this morning that he’s “proper now” ruling out placing up any future bipartisan Senate compromise to reopen the federal government for a vote on the Home flooring.
I’m proper now as a result of we stated a clear persevering with decision. There’s no Republican priorities within the CR in any respect, it’s a really impartial easy easy establishment, which suggests I don’t have something to barter.
He made related feedback yesterday, inserting full blame on the Democrats for the continued shutdown.
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Home speaker Mike Johnson says ball is within the Democrats’ courtroom to finish shutdown
On the airwaves this morning, Home speaker Mike Johnson continues in charge Democrats for the federal government shutdown and says it’s as much as them to finish the deadlock.
“We’ve executed precisely what’s at all times executed, a really clear, quite simple decision to maintain the federal government open in order that we will negotiate all these different points,” Johnson instructed NBC’s At the moment. “They’ve rejected it as a result of they’re making an attempt to make a political play,” he stated.
The ball is within the courts [of] the Democrats, not the Republicans. The Republicans have executed our job, executed our work, and now Chuck Schumer and 43 of his colleagues need to resolve to do the fitting factor.
The Home speaker additionally dismissed a number of polls that discovered extra Individuals consider Republicans are accountable for the shutdown than Democrats. Requested if Republicans are shedding the messaging battle, he stated:
The Democrats try to make this about politics, and I’m not shocked by a few of the polls, as a result of the mainstream media is advancing their narrative.
Johnson is because of converse at a press convention shortly, we’ll carry you all the newest from that when it will get going.
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