ICE isn't the only thing in the Trump admin messing up construction projects. Funding approvals are lagging too.
I have a friend who is an architect on a housing project in eastern WA state. They bid a project in spring with hope to get it done in the summer construction window. Despite clear application approval prior, the final go ahead approval has not come from DC and given normal colder weather changes in the fall shut down the concrete and asphalt plants it is now almost too late to start the project this year. The inaction may cancel the project entirely as the stipulation to the funding was that it must be used this year or will be lost. So the housing authority would have to reapply, assuming there are even any funds available to apply for, next year. So the contractor that bid and won the project along with their workers are shorted as is the housing authority and its tenants. Hard to know if this is a DOGE driven issue or just a new inept administration or a back door way to claw back approved funding, but it is pretty lousy way to do business. Getting contractors to bid government projects is already a challenge in many places and this will only make it more of a bad waste of time.