The Trump administration revoked funding for the project in October 2025, and then restored it earlier this year.
The 1,700-ton tunnel-boring machine that will carve the first new Hudson River rail tunnel in over a hundred years broke ground on Sept. 28, kicking off project that has been years in the making. The Trump administration briefly pulled funding for the Gateway Project last October, citing "’unconstitutional’ diversity, equity and inclusion principles,” Jose Martinez writes for The City Reporter.
The tunnel is part of a $16 billion series of rail improvements, and will carry 200,000 passengers on 450 New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains daily, Martinez writes. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she hopes the tunnel will be finished by 2034.
The City Reporter reports:
“Many thought this day would never come, a lot of fits and starts,” [Hochul] said at the North Bergen, N.J. tunnel portal. “But here we are, back right on schedule because we believe in getting things done with a sense of urgency.”
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