As President Trump continued to insist this week that he had killed funding for a new tunnel under the Hudson River, Andy Byford, his pick to lead the redevelopment of Penn Station — which would connect to that tunnel — said he was “not unduly fazed” by the funding threat, adding, “I think this will all play out as part of the [government] shutdown.”

Byford — officially a special adviser to the Amtrak board overseeing the federally led redesign of the Midtown transit hub — made the comment to reporters Wednesday after addressing the New York Building Congress, a construction industry group.

It comes three weeks after the Trump administration announced, in the early hours of the ongoing government shutdown , that funding for the Hudson River Tunnel — the primary component of the Gatew

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