{"id":453121,"date":"2026-02-06T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453121\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:22:07","slug":"trump-says-hell-free-infrastructure-funds-for-new-york-if-penn-station-is-renamed-after-him-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453121\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he\u2019ll free infrastructure funds for New York if Penn Station is renamed after him | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> has told the Senate\u2019s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer<\/a>, that he will unfreeze funds for major infrastructure projects in New York City if he supports renaming Dulles international airport and Penn Station after him.<\/p>\n

The demand, which was first reported on Thursday by Punchbowl News<\/a>, comes after the president in October halted $18bn in funding<\/a> for a major subway line expansion in New York City as well as a new rail tunnel connecting the city to New Jersey. The funding freeze was announced on the first day of a 43-day government shutdown in which Schumer, who represents New York, played a major role.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Schumer did not respond to a request for comment from the Guardian.<\/p>\n

Trump, who is not eligible to serve another term as president, has moved to emblazon his name on a host of government buildings and websites since taking office a year ago, including the Kennedy Center<\/a> and the US Institute for Peace<\/a>. It is unclear if either change is legal.<\/p>\n

He also pushed congressional Republicans to create new tax-advantaged investment accounts for young people dubbed \u201cTrump Accounts\u201d, and announced a new government-run website<\/a> to sell discounted prescription drugs called TrumpRX.com.<\/p>\n

The president is also reportedly planning<\/a> to build a 250ft arch across the river from Washington DC that would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has told the Senate\u2019s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, that he will unfreeze funds for major infrastructure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-453121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}