""Today, work has stopped on America's biggest construction project in transportation," Buttigieg said in a video posted to social media, referring to the Gateway Tunnel that would connect New York and New Jersey, which Buttigieg called "critically important" but "badly damaged," so there's a project to create a new tunnel without disturbing the previous tunnel."
""If those tunnels became unavailable, you would feel the economic consequences as far away as the backyard of my home in Michigan." "President Trump stopped the funding for the project," Buttigieg explained. "Not for any valid reason. He's actually said he'll start the project again if he gets to rename Dulles Airport and Penn Station after himself.""
""This is what happens when the president of the United States is out of control." Buttigieg was referring to the $16 billion Hudson River Tunnel Project, which began in the Biden administration after the tunnel was badly damaged during a 2012 hurricane. The Trump administration has frozen $205 million in funding for the project since October 1, 2025, in what states that sued for the funding called a "brazen act of political retribution," since the bridge would connect two states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024."
Work has stopped on the Gateway/Hudson River Tunnel, a critically important project connecting New York and New Jersey that aims to build a new tunnel without disturbing a badly damaged existing tunnel. Loss of the tunnels would impose wide economic consequences, potentially reaching communities in Michigan. Federal funding for the $16 billion Hudson River Tunnel Project has been frozen, with $205 million withheld since October 1, 2025. The funding freeze has been characterized by suing states as political retribution tied to partisan preferences, and a claim emerged that funding would be unfrozen only if major transportation hubs were renamed after a political figure.
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