Day: May 3, 2019

There’s light—and money—in the tunnel for the Gateway Project, according to the chairman of the House of Representative’s Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio told the New York press corps Thursday that he would specifically write the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Amtrak assets linking the Empire and Garden states into a $2 trillion infrastructure expenditure plan. The remarks followed a tour DeFazio took of the atrophied century-old tubes currently carrying commuters under the Hudson River.

WASHINGTON — Democratic congressional leaders emerged from a meeting at the White House on Tuesday and announced that President Trump had agreed to pursue a $2 trillion infrastructure plan to upgrade the nation’s highways, railroads, bridges and broadband.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said that there had been “good will” in the meeting and that it was “different than some of the other meetings that we’ve had.” Standing alongside Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he said the group planned to meet again in three weeks, when Mr. Trump was expected to tell them how he planned to actually pay for the ambitious project.