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Gateway Tunnel Project Could Stop Next Week without Federal Funding
A funding freeze threatens to halt the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project by Feb. 6, risking 96,000 jobs and increased costs, officials warned at a recent board meeting.
- GDC CEO Tom Prendergast warned, `work must stop on Feb. 6 if additional funding isn't released,` during Tuesday's meeting.
- The funding pause began in October when the U.S. Department of Transportation reviewed contract compliance with rules on women- and minority-owned businesses, while White House officials criticized some project spending.
- The project would replace the aging North River Tunnel, which subjects 200,000 daily travelers to delays, and two tunnel-boring machines will carve tubes tied to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor handling roughly 800,000 trips daily.
- Regional leaders warned that `at this point it feels like Donald Trump wants something from somebody and he's attaching the Gateway funding to something else and I don't know what that is, but the sense we have is that it's just a kind of a negotiation, which it shouldn't be`, said Tom Wright, as Schumer called Trump’s actions `a gross violation of the president’s obligation to the public`.
- A pause would imperil both immediate jobs and broader economic activity as officials said nearly 1,000 immediate project workers and 96,000 jobs required to complete the program are at risk, threatening regional and national economies and $20 billion in economic activity.
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