President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday evening that he would “terminate” federal funding for the Gateway Project, which aims to build the first new set of Hudson River train tunnels in over a century.

If he gets his way, he’ll leave a new mark on the region in the form of a pair of unfinished holes on either side of the river — one in North Bergen, another on Manhattan’s West Side — along with three other active construction sites that would be abandoned.

Federal transportation officials under former President Joe Biden committed to paying for $6.8 billion of the project’s $16 billion cost — which includes repairs to the existing 115-year-old Hudson River tunnels. It’s the single largest federal grant for a mass transit project in American history.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, the lead

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