The day after the shutdown began, they announced that they were first suspending billions of dollars worth of projects in just one city, New York City, not coincidentally represented by the Democratic leader in the House and the Senate. And then Hours after they released a list of canceled energy projects, they listed the states that they were being canceled and every single one of those states was represented by two Democratic senators. Everybody knew what was happening. It was an effort to use the spending power seized by the executive to punish, to punish representatives of the people who oppose the President politically. (12:25–12:39)
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Asserts that canceled energy projects were in states represented by Democratic senators.
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