"This is a huge win for New York, New Jersey, hundreds of thousands of commuters, thousands of union workers, and the economy of the entire region. Gateway is back on track!"
"That means we've now received a whopping $235 million!"
""Gateway's the most important public works project, infrastructure project in America right now," Schumer said. "It's the largest, it's employing the most people, and it's the most essential, 'cause if those tunnels under the Hudson River collapse, the whole Northeastern economy collapses.""
An additional $127 million in federal funding arrived for the Gateway Tunnel Project, bringing total recently released funds to $235 million and enabling the stalled project to move forward. The latest disbursement includes all of December's funding and part of January's, exceeding initial expectations. A federal court ordered the administration to resume $205 million in payments that had been frozen in October. Additional payments of $77 million have been released with an expected $98 million to follow. Construction is expected to resume within days, returning thousands of union workers to jobs and benefiting hundreds of thousands of commuters and the regional economy.
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