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

By Kate Sullivan

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao confirmed last week to lawmakers that President Donald Trump is personally lobbying House Speaker Paul Ryan to block federal funding for a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project.

 

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)