Stansbury joined Tapper on The Lead on Tuesday as dozens of states chose to sue President Donald Trump's administration over a coming halt to the SNAP assistance program amid the government shutdown, which is now in its 28th day. Things got tense between Tapper and Stansbury as the congresswoman clapped back at Tapper's accusation that Democrats are choosing to keep the government closed.
The project − meant to create a new rail tunnel and rehabilitate the existing 115-year-old pair of tunnels under the Hudson River − has already begun construction at several sites with hundreds of workers operating as of Oct. 17. That hasn't stopped Trump, a former New York real estate mogul, from threatening the $16 billion project. "I'm cutting the project," Trump told Fox Business in an interview that aired Oct. 17. "The project is going to be dead. It is pretty much dead right now."
HARRISON: Well, it's their prerogative to do it. But, I mean, I do have to point out that I don't know of any, just about any major media, CNN included, that dragged Governor Pritzker on TV, and asked him to justify the gerrymandering in his state, or California, where I'm looking at right now, Republicans have 40 percent of the vote in California, but they only give 17 percent of their seats to Republicans. Same thing in New York.
