How much of this crap took place under Honest Abe Obama? Answer: More than we will ever know. In the end, the shared cost of this tunnel was exactly "zero." And Obama Democrats approved this proposed theft ~ Editor.
FOX News: An Obama-era plan to have the federal government finance
half of a $13 billion rail tunnel project ran into a red light Friday
from the Trump administration.
The plan, proposed under President Barack Obama in 2015, includes
revitalizing a deteriorating Amtrak tunnel connecting New Jersey to New
York City, repairing damage to a dual-tunnel conduit, and reconstructing
the New Jersey railroad network’s aging Portal Bridge, Crain’s New York
Business reported.
Amtrak, which owns most of the rail tunnels and tracks between Boston
and Washington, D.C., contends that the existing tunnel connecting New
Jersey and New York City is damaged and could fail within 10 to 15
years, threatening daily rail transportation in the Northeast.
The original Obama-era plan called for costs to be split among New York state, New Jersey and the federal government.
‘A local project’
But in a letter Friday, the Trump administration notified New York
and New Jersey that the Obama-era deal was now “non-existent” because
the states recently requested that their portions be covered by loans
from the federal government — meaning Washington would supply all of the
initial funding for what the Trump White House is calling “a local
project.”
“Your letter also references a non-existent ’50/50′ agreement between
USDOT, New York, and New Jersey. There is no such agreement,” wrote K.
Jane Williams, deputy administrator of the Federal Transit
Administration. “We consider it unhelpful to reference a non-existent
‘agreement’ rather than directly address the responsibility for funding a
local project where nine out of 10 passengers are local transit
riders.”
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