President Donald Trump’s budget director announced $2.1 billion in federal infrastructure money for Chicago is being paused as the administration continues to target money for blue cities and states amid the government shutdown.White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said the frozen dollars had been allocated to support improvements to Chicago Transit Authority rail lines.Vought earlier announced that $18 billion in infrastructure funds for New York, the home state of Democratic congressional leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, had been put on hold and $8 billion in Department of Energy projects in 16 blue states was cut.Democrats have complained about the funding cuts.”We’re less than a day into this shutdown, and Trump & Vought are illegally punishing Democrat-led states,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said on social media, calling the moves “mafioso tactics.”Trump has talked about cutting “Democrat things” during the shutdown. The president said on social media Oct.