Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) vowed Thursday to fight to keep the Gateway/Hudson River Tunnel project funded , hours after President Trump insisted — perhaps incorrectly — that the project had been “terminated.”

“Yesterday, President Trump and his administration ‘terminated’ funding for Gateway,” Schumer said on the floor of the Senate Thursday morning, putting air quotes around the operative verb.

“Donald Trump is trying to kill it again, in pure spite and with sheer stupidity — it’s petty revenge politics,” the senator continued. “We will fight the president on this in every way, to preserve this crucial, vital infrastructure project.”

The Hudson River Tunnel — a $16 million portion of the larger Gateway project, which seeks to double the number of rail connections

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