President Donald Trump vowed to make the government shutdown as painful as possible for the Democrats who caused it, and his administration has taken multiple steps to ensure that promise becomes a reality.

This week, the administration paused, and potentially canceled, upwards of $11 billion in funding for major infrastructure projects in four Democrat-led cities, according to Breitbart.

That follows an initial round of shutdown-related pausing and possible cancellation of nearly $30 billion in taxpayer funds earmarked for specific infrastructure and "green" energy projects in more than a dozen Democrat-led cities and states across the country.

Billions in project funding grants paused

On Friday, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced in an X post, "The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers' ability to manage billions of dollars in projects."

"The Corps will be immediately pausing over $11 billion in lower-priority projects & considering them for cancellation, including projects in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore," he added. "More information to come from the Army Corps of Engineers."

No further details have been released yet about which specific projects in those four cities have been paused.

Other Democrat projects have had funds cut

The pause in $11 billion in funding for the Army Corps of Engineers' projects in four Democrat-led states came about two weeks after OMB Director Vought slashed nearly $30 billion in Democrat-favored pet projects on the first few days of the government shutdown.

On Day One, Vought announced, "Roughly $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles."

He later clarified, according to Breitbart, that those Department of Transportation funds had been intended for two projects that are well over budget and far past due -- the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Avenue Subway.

Just two days later, Vought similarly revealed, "$2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects -- specifically the Red Line Extension and the Red and Purple Modernization Project -- have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting."

Nor was it just ACE and DoT funding at stake, as Vought announced on the first day of the shutdown that the Energy Department had likewise paused billions of dollars in funding for climate change-related projects in several Democrat-led states.

"Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled. More info to come from @ENERGY," he posted at that time. "The projects are in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA."

Trump warned Democrats that this would happen

Senate Democrats have repeatedly refused to vote for a "clean" funding bill with no attachments that would keep the government open through November, and instead have issued a plethora of absurd demands in exchange for their support, all of which have been summarily rejected by Republicans, most notably including taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal migrants.

President Trump made it clear ahead of time that he would make Democrats regret their decision to force a government shutdown, and cutting off project grant funding to Democrat-led states is just one of the many ways his administration is going about doing so.