You might not know this, but white christian, heterosexual, gun owning males are the most persecuted minority in the history of the entire globe, and quite possibly the universe.

“Right now a student is being bullied somewhere for only wanting to read, pay attention to the teacher and learn,” said DeVos, who revoked former President Barack Obama’s guidance to schools that transgender students should be able to use the restroom of their affirmed gender identity.

By doing this, NY could pay for this tunnel in 1 single year and pave 96,000 single-lane miles of roadway. All with 1 year of this “tax deficit”. Split the tunnel cost with NJ and they can pick up another 48,000 single-lane miles.

Here’s the real solution - don’t tax companies. Seriously, I know it sounds crazy, but we shouldn’t tax corporations. Most of the rest of the world doesn’t.

The agreement with the Obama administration is that the states would pay half. At this point, the existing tunnels are in bad enough shape that they really have no choice but come up with funding on their own if they can’t get Congress to appropriate funds, but obviously that will make those delegations (and others…

It would be a *massive* disruption to that area, and since the Northeast is such a big part of our economy it would ripple throughout the rest of the economy as well. Our airports wouldn’t be able to handle the long-distance passengers, and the hit to NYC’s economy would be pretty big as well. You can’t fit a few…

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the MTA. It’s Amtrak.

Most freight doesn’t use this tunnel, as they have to go 140 miles north of the city (even if they just have to come back down): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkirk_hurdle

Why would I blame politicians on both sides? Last I checked, Christie and Trump were both on the same side.

You think Texas doesn’t get Federal funds? Looks like TX for 2016 (the most recent I see numbers for), TX got nearly $600M in Federal highway funds, and there’s other infrastructure funding they get besides that.

“The Northeast accounts for 30 percent of all jobs in the U.S. and contributes $3 trillion annually to the U.S. economy. It’s home to 51 million people—one in 7 Americans—a figure expected to hit 58 million by 2040"

Yes we are going to act like that, because Trump is the one who wants to kill the project. Yes, the tunnel should have been done ages ago, but it is behind schedule because Chris Christie killed the previous attempt to do it (after many millions had been spent).

13 months in and just hit 100 days on his golf course. 3 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS STRAIGHT on a golf course and he had the gall to say Obama golfed too much.

“I don’t believe that small things can grow to affect big things” is the mentality that unravels most large organizations/systems/empires eventually, so at least we’re at par for the course.

Yeah, that makes perfect sense as long as you don’t understand how anything works or think about it for more than ten seconds.

Yeah! Where of where could the federal government come up with 15 billion dollars?! Thats insane! Thats almost 5% of the defense budget!

That Trump is using this as a way to hurt Schumer is yet another example of just how corrupt he is. And the fact that Trump is a New Yorker makes it even more galling. All of his New York billionaire friends stand to lose a lot of money if the rail tunnel isn’t built. New York should revoke Trumps state citizenship.

Better a tax-and-spend liberal than a cut-and-spend “conservative” - look what the GOP has done; they’ve cut revenue by 1.5 trillion dollars, then the increased spending by hundreds of millions more.

No Ryan, this makes perfect sense. Trump wants to prop up the American steel industry, but not the construction industry that uses that steel.

No surprise there. The only thing Trump actually seems to like to spend government money on his stays at Mar-a-Lago.