President Donald Trump said he plans to revoke federal funding for the $16 billion Hudson River Tunnel project, a move that could halt one of the nation’s most critical infrastructure efforts and strike directly at a decades-long priority of Sen. Chuck Schumer.

“The project in Manhattan, the project in New York — it’s billions and billions of dollars that Schumer has worked 20 years to get,” Trump said Wednesday. “It’s terminated. Tell them it’s terminated.”

The president has argued that the ongoing government shutdown gives him an opening to cut what he calls “wasteful Democratic-backed projects,” including the Gateway Tunnel — the linchpin of the busy Northeast Corridor that links New York and New Jersey.

Work began two years ago on the tunnel, which engineers and transportation offic

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