President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of
dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure project, CNN.
But there
was a condition: In exchange for the money, Schumer had to agree to rename New
York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles International Airport after Trump.
The
startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the
conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer, who told the president he didn’t
have the power to deliver on such an unorthodox request.
In the
weeks since, Trump has continued to withhold the more than $16 billion
earmarked for the long-planned Gateway project connecting New York and New
Jersey through a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River.
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