President Trump indicates the Gateway rail tunnel project has been 'terminated'
The multibillion-dollar project was going to build a new rail tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan.
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President Donald Trump is signaling that he is terminating the Gateway Project.
The multibillion-dollar project was going to build a new rail tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan. Funding was pulled from the project 15 days ago due to the government shutdown.
But at an event in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the president made it clear that he doesn’t want the project.
“We're getting rid of programs that we didn't like but that were negotiated in but that we didn't like. We're terminating those programs and they're gonna be terminated on a permanent basis,” Trump said. “Not only jobs, but the project in Manhattan, the project in New York, it's billions and billions of dollars that [Sen. Chuck] Schumer has worked 20 years to get. It's terminated.”
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Tri-state area lawmakers were quick to respond to Trump’s comments.
Sen. Schumer wrote on X, “Gateway is the most important infrastructure project in America—period...Donald Trump trying to kill it again is pure spite and stupidity...It’s vindictive, reckless, and foolish.”
[twitter] https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1978582260153717062 [/twitter]
Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Andy Kim issued a joint statement:
“Threatening to cut funding for Gateway is a direct attack on New Jersey by the Trump Administration. It sends a clear signal that President Trump is more focused on punishing perceived enemies than serving the American people or delivering for New Jersey families. This isn’t a Democratic project. It’s a project that has had broad bipartisan support,” the senators wrote.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s office declined to comment on the issue.
