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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office Sunday sought to rescue the federal government’s commitment to funding a new commuter tunnel under the Hudson River—a deal President Donald Trump’s team declared “nonexistent” on Friday.
In a letter to a U.S. Department of Transportation official, Cuomo’s budget director recalled an August meeting between Trump, his Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the New York and New Jersey House and Senate delegations. The subject was the Obama administration’s 2015 promise that Washington would furnish half the costs of the Gateway project, a plan to construct a passenger rail tube into Manhattan for Amtrak and NJ Transit trains, to refurbish the corroded existing conduit and rebuild the Garden State’s Portal Bridge, among other upgrades.
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