{"id":133020,"date":"2026-02-13T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:01:08","slug":"frozen-gateway-tunnel-funds-will-be-released-next-week-trump-administration-tells-new-york-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133020\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Gateway Tunnel funds will be released next week, Trump administration tells New York, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legal battle continues over the release of federal funds for the Gateway Tunnel Project in New York and New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said officials expected the Trump administration to release more than $200 million in frozen funds on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/gateway-tunnel-project-funding-deadline-trump-administration-ny-nj\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after the deadline for<\/a>\u00a0an appeals court to allow President Trump to continue holding up construction on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/gateway-project-shutdown-trump-hudson-river-tunnel\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">critical infrastructure project<\/a>\u00a0passed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>But after an emergency conference with a judge, the federal government estimated funds for the new Hudson River tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey would not be released until Tuesday because of the Presidents&#8217; Day federal holiday Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump required to unfreeze Gateway Tunnel funding<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration was required to release the money after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/gateway-tunnel-project-trump-administration-ny-nj\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a federal court order<\/a> blocking funding for the project expired. An appeals court then scheduled a hearing on the government&#8217;s motion to continue freezing the funds for Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s way past time that the president releases the Gateway Tunnel funds. He&#8217;s illegally stopped them, the courts have spoken, and now it&#8217;s time for people to get back to work,&#8221; Sherrill said at a news conference in Secaucus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sherrill slammed the political back-and-forth, pointing out all the money spent on legal fees for a project Congress already approved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can get people back to work. It should happen very quickly,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of workers off the job<\/p>\n<p>About 1,000 construction workers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/gateway-tunnel-project-workers-still-not-back-on-the-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">off the job<\/a> since last Friday, when the Trump administration froze federal dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got the rug pulled out from underneath me,&#8221; said Adam Pezanowski, with Liuna Local 472. &#8220;This job was history for us. We were all excited about being a part of this.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re rolling the dice if something happens to that other tunnel,&#8221; said Joe Barbuto, with Teamster Local 560.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They hope Mr. Trump hears their pleas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s transportation that everybody takes and the tunnel they use now is in dire need already,&#8221; Barbuto said. &#8220;This is not fair to me or to my family, or anyone else that lost their jobs on the multiple projects from Newark, New Jersey, to Penn Station in Manhattan.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News New York reached out to the White House for comment multiple times, but we have not heard back.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legal battle continues over the release of federal funds for the Gateway Tunnel Project in New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,5865,6588,9,11,10,56864,655],"class_list":["post-133020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-infrastructure","tag-mikie-sherrill","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-secaucus","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}