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Politics
Sadik Hossain

Trump offers to unfreeze $16 billion for NY tunnel project, but what Trump wanted in return was his most audacious ask yet

President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he would release over $16 billion in infrastructure funding. However, he had one condition: Schumer must agree to rename two major transit hubs after him.

According to CNN, Trump has kept holding back the money meant for the Gateway project, a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River that connects New York and New Jersey. To get the funds released, New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles International Airport would need to be renamed in the president’s honor.

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