A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday sparred with senior Army Corps of Engineers officials over the Trump administration’s decision to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in civil works spending from Democratic-leaning states to those where President Donald Trump has widespread support.
At a hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) confronted Robyn Colosimo, acting principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, citing the corps’ longstanding practice of awarding infrastructure project funding based on need and merit, not politics.
“I think all of us in this room can agree that our vital infrastructure simply should never be partisan,” Levin said at the hearing.
Then in a direct question to Colosimo, he said, “Do you agree that the corps should not operate in a partisan manner?”
