Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Transportation Secretary: 'Yes,' Trump Seeking to Scrap New York Gateway Proposal



 
Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney of New York asked Chao during a hearing March 6 if reporting earlier this month by The Washington Post that Trump was lobbying to kill a project to build a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey was true. Chao replied it "probably" was but that he would have to ask the White House. In a testy exchange, Maloney pointed out that she was coming before Congress as the transportation secretary and a member of Trump's Cabinet, and pressed, "Is the President of the United States personally intervening with the speaker to kill this project?"
 
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Source: CNN (via Empire Report New York) 

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