Few people thought President Donald Trump would really pull the plug on the nation’s largest public works project — not even some members of his own administration.
But now work on the $16 billion train tunnels between New York and New Jersey is winding down, as POLITICO reported Tuesday morning, because Trump won’t pick up the tab for a project supported by Democrats, Republicans, labor unions, business groups and civic organizations.
Some of those same supporters lashed out at the Trump administration Tuesday, with the governor of New Jersey and a labor leader both calling it an “attack.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the situation “insane” and “absurd.”
“This makes absolutely no sense, yet here we are,” Schumer said during remarks in New York City to the bistate agency tasked with building the tunnels. “There is only one person who terminated Gateway and there is only one person who could get it back on track, and that’s President Trump.”
