Two weeks ago, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced a pause of $11 billion in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers funding. So far, though, the list of projects targeted is a mystery, prompting some people on Capitol Hill and in state governments to ask: Where’s the list?
Congressional aides from both sides of the aisle say their lawmakers have yet to receive any more details on the impacted projects, other than scant descriptions Vought provided on the social media site X that the freeze would hit some “low-priority” projects in “New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore.”
One staff member described it as “radio silence” from the corps and OMB. According to another aide, there was no finalized list when the announcement happened, and the administration was still coming up with one after Vought’s announcement.
