Washington — Republicans in Congress are threatening to withhold more than $2-million in earmarks from the City of Berkeley and the University of California campus there if the City Council does not rescind a vote calling on military recruiters to leave the city.

Two Republicans, Rep. John B.T. Campbell of California and Sen. Jim W. DeMint of South Carolina, have offered legislation in the House of Representatives and Senate that would rescind the earmarks provided in the 2008 omnibus appropriations bill and transfer the money to the Marine Corps. The Senate could take up its version of the bill as early as tonight, provided no senator files an anonymous objection to the legislation.

“Berkeley needs to understand that their actions have consequences,” said Senator DeMint in a written statement. “Berkeley City Council members have shown complete ingratitude to our military and their families, and the city doesn’t deserve a single dime of special pet-project handouts.”

The City Council is slated to vote tonight on whether to rescind the resolution, which said that recruiters that chose to remain in Berkeley would do so as “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.” The resolution also applauded residents who “impede, passively or actively, by nonviolent means, the work of any military recruiting office located in the City of Berkeley.”

Among the earmarks to the University of California at Berkeley is $975,000 for the Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service to create a new endowment and catalog the papers of the late U.S. Rep. Robert T. Matsui. —Kelly Field