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Recently sworn-in New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has called on President Donald Trump to immediately restore funding for the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project, a major rail infrastructure effort under the Hudson River that will link New Jersey to New York City.
Sherrill, a Democrat, said that the president’s refusal to fund the Gateway Tunnel project is an “illegal attack on New Jersey” that also shows a “reckless disregard” for the state’s economy and the livelihoods of working families.
“If the president does not restore funding to this project, which I helped secure while serving in Congress, he will single-handedly kill nearly 100,000 jobs and $20 billion in economic activity,” Sherrill said in a statement.
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New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is calling on President Donald Trump to restore $16 billion in Gateway Tunnel funding, warning 100,000 jobs are at risk in a major infrastructure standoff. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
“New Jersey will fight tooth and nail for our hard-earned tax dollars and this essential project that will make commutes easier and improve quality of life for residents in the Garden State,” she added.
Sherrill said that New Jersey and New York make up the most powerful economic region in the world and called the Gateway Project the most urgent and consequential infrastructure project in the country.
The Trump administration, hours into a federal government shutdown in the fall, announced the freezing of billions of dollars in federal funding for the tunnel, as well as for the extension of New York City’s Second Avenue Subway.
Trump then terminated the funding, blaming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for being responsible for the shutdown. Trump noted that Schumer had spent years trying to get the project built.
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