US EditionTrump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him
- Thursday, CNN reported that President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month he would lift his hold on $16 billion for the Gateway project only if Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport were renamed for him.
- Amid that branding push, officials say Trump halted funding late last year, with Democratic officials claiming it was politically motivated after he moved to halt the project.
- Two people familiar with the discussion described Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's prompt refusal, and Punchbowl News and Jake Sherman reported the White House asked Schumer to support renaming Dulles and Penn Station last month.
- The Gateway tunnel commission warned it may halt construction and lay off roughly 1,000 workers soon, while New York and New Jersey sued earlier this week alleging the funding freeze is unlawful.
- With little movement in the GOP-controlled Congress, the Office of Management and Budget and Russell Vought previously held up $8 billion in clean energy projects across 18 blue states, showing a pattern of holds and limited legislative support.
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The initiative, which received about US$ 15 billion in federal support during the government of then President Joe Biden, involves repairs in an existing tunnel and the construction of a new one for the Amtrak passenger train
US President Donald Trump would have been asked to buy Penn Station from New York and the Dulles International Airport in Washington to be named after him, in exchange for the deblocking of federal funds of billions of dollars for a major project of...
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Trump suggests he would restore Gateway Tunnel funding if Penn Station is named for him: sources
Last month, Trump told Schumer that he would be willing unfreeze $16 billion in funding if Schumer would agree to rename New York's Penn Station and Washington's Dulles Airport after Donald Trump, sources say.
Trump is said to want to release billions for a New York tunnel - on one condition: an airport and a railway station should bear its name.
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