The $6.88 billion federal grant for the Hudson River train tunnel project is the largest federal transportation grant ever.
The tunnel grant is the largest single federal transportation grant ever given to New York state. | AP PhotoA long-delayed plan to build new train tunnels across the Hudson River is locked in beyond the reach of possible Republican attempts to undo it after federal officials awarded the project nearly $7 billion, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday.
Schumer acknowledged he was rushing to lock in the project before the 2024 elections. With this money in hand, Schumer said, even if Democrats lose control of the Senate and Donald Trump or another Republican hostile to the project becomes president, the money cannot easily be taken back and the $17 billion tunnel project will survive. To rescind federal grant money would require a supermajority in Congress, something that Schumer said “will not happen.
New York and New Jersey may have to pony up several billion dollars apiece to build the project, though officials are trying to get more federal money to lower each state’s share of the project’s total costs. Construction on the tunnels themselves will begin next summer, though some needed construction along the shores of the Hudson River is happening this year.
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