Gateway tunnel work to resume
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All $205 million in federal funds for the Gateway rail tunnel construction program that had been frozen by the Trump administration has been released.
A federal judge had ordered the funding for a $16 billion tunnel project restored last week, but on Monday granted a temporary stay after the federal government appealed her decision.
Officials expect that construction work for Gateway, the massive cross-Hudson rail project temporarily halted by the Trump administration last month, will
President Donald Trump took to social media to brand the Gateway Tunnel project a “future boondoggle” that could cost “many billions of dollars more” than budgeted, drawing a sharp rebuke from New Jersey Gov.
The federal government has disbursed another $77 million in previously frozen funding for the Gateway project, but work has yet to resume on the new set on Hudson River tunnels.
President Donald Trump is putting more pressure on Democrats over the Gateway Tunnel expansion and renovation of the Northeast Corridor rail line between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City. “I am opposed to the future boondoggle known as ‘Gateway,