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It could cost $20 million a month to wind the Gateway project down and secure the sites. If restored, finding skilled workers again could be hard.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rejected an offer from President Trump last month to release $16 billion in federal funds for the Gateway tunnel project in exchange for backing the renaming of New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles International Airport after him.
Trump Station and Trump Airport? That was reportedly the crux of a deal President Donald Trump offered a top Democrat in exchange for releasing billions of dollars in long-frozen funds for the new Gateway Tunnel between New Jersey and New York.
Hudson Tunnel Project halted until further notice New York City is slated to halt the ongoing construction of train tunnels under the Hudson River this week, unless the federal government restores the project’s $16 billion budget by Friday.