WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Sen. Elissa Slotkin issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), alongside U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Gary Peters (D-MI), sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle urging them to resume work on the Brandon Road Interbasin Project (BRIP). The project was paused for administrative review despite having already been reviewed, authorized, and funded by Congress. As the Senators emphasized in their letter, halting BRIP threatens the Great Lakes ecosystem and the region's fishing industry. "We write to express concern over the ...