Infrastructure and Transit Politics

Axios reports that last month Trump officials offered to release the federal hold on $16 billion for the Gateway Tunnel Project only if Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after Donald Trump, a demand that prompted fury from Democrats. The offer was reportedly made in follow‑up conversations with Schumer’s team rather than during their Oval Office meeting, and comes as the project faces an indefinite shutdown Friday without the frozen funding and amid parallel talks over DHS and ICE reforms.