{"id":4448,"date":"2025-10-16T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/4448\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:49:08","slug":"trump-terminates-16-billion-hudson-river-tunnel-project-linking-n-j-and-n-y-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/4448\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018terminates\u2019 $16 billion Hudson River tunnel project linking N.J. and N.Y.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/topic\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Donald Trump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Donald Trump<\/a> said he \u201cterminated\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2024\/11\/will-16b-gateway-tunnel-project-stall-under-a-new-trump-administration.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:$16 billion Gateway rail tunnel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">$16 billion Gateway rail tunnel<\/a> under the Hudson River in a surprise statement made during press conference Wednesday as tense negotiations over the federal government shutdown drag on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe project in New York \u2014 it\u2019s billions and billions of dollars that (U.S. Sen. Chuck) Schumer (D-N.Y.) has worked 20 years to get,\u201d Trump said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/1978557549248184503\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:video of the event;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">video of the event<\/a>. \u201cTell him it\u2019s terminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Larry Higgs\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b392c94a314894ef58d155c4d7536fa0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larry Higgs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2025\/10\/trump-terminates-16-billion-hudson-river-tunnel-project-linking-nj-and-nyc.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NJ.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NJ.com<\/a>. Add <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NJ.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NJ.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=nj.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said he \u201cterminated\u201d the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel under the Hudson River in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4616,2065,153,4617,9,56,63,65,64,4618,4615,4614],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-billions-and-billions","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-government-shutdown","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-press-conference","tag-surprise-statement","tag-tense-negotiations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","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=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}