The judge that ordered the administration to release federal funds for the New York-New Jersey tunnel project approved a temporary stay, delaying the release by at least a few more days.
The federal judge that ordered the Trump administration to release funding for the Gateway Project approved a temporary stay requested by federal government, further delaying the distribution of funds.
As Patrick McGeehan explains in The New York Times, the funding freeze resulted in the layoff of 1,000 workers last Friday. “The Laborers’ Union, which represents many of those workers, bused dozens of them to an idle work site in North Bergen, N.J., on Monday morning. There, a massive tunnel-boring machine lay in pieces near the rock wall that would serve as the western mouth of the tunnel.”
Thomas Prendergast, chief executive of the Gateway Development Commission, says the longer work is delayed, the more it will cost to restart it. Local political and labor leaders are calling on President Trump to end the freeze, calling it a political “vendetta.”
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