This also points to a weird but true situation: Many blue states would be financially better off (or at least neutral) to eliminate federal programs and replace them with state programs, because the smaller the federal budget, the smaller the net outflow from blue cities.

But then they weirdly push for the opposite to the financial detriment of their own constituents, including the lower income ones who could have higher state benefits than existing federal benefits if the feds weren't taking so much of their state's money.

Best guess for why this happens is that the blue team is more captured by government sector lobbyists at the federal level, who don't want to lose jobs to state level government workers.