If he landed in prison (and he won’t)... judging by the racial make up of nearly all of the prisons in the US, he’d probably be on the receiving end of that golden shower.

Are you an expert construction estimator? How would you possibly have any clue what a project like this would cost, whether in NYC or wherever you call home?

The Gateway ‘Program’ isn’t just the tunnel. It is Portal Bridge, other bridge, new tubes under the Hudson, more tracks, then some.

Tunnels are super fucking expensive.

$30B is for the whole gateway project, which involves completely redoing the whole alignment from Newark all the way to Penn Station. Lots of new bridges and new track. Various places where they need to buy land for new rights of way. Building the new tunnels and refurbishing the two old ones is currently expected to…

Do they get that food for free, or do they buy it?

The need comes from the salary ranges, there is a greater percentage of Southerners living below the poverty line, therefore there are more federal dollars spent in keeping the population afloat. Also, lower incomes and lower taxes in the state themselves require more federal intervention.

“To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”

Per Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, it is the responsibility of the United States Federal Government to regulate interstate commerce. Maintaining adequate infrastructure is paramount to that responsibility.

“made his money” bankruptcy and failure to pay contractors. IE, con man. That’s how.

>How did Trump make his money?

Failing that, it’s time for Team Blue to join the call for a Constitutional Convention, so we can bail on this mess.

No. Read all the articles and books about him: he doesn’t get involved in details.

I actually kind of pity him more than I hate him. His insecurity, apparent memory issues and obvious emotional instability ( both of those last two items just scream Alzheimers, BTW ) should absolutely disqualify him from the presidency, but I can’t help but pity him as a person for having to live that way.

How did Trump make his money?

There has never ( not since the founding era, at least ) been a president so openly hostile to his predecessor or so focused on undoing anything with their predecessor’s fingerprints on it. It’s bizarre. It doesn’t even matter what it is that’s being undone. Nothing is too small, too insignificant, too petty.

For every $1 a NY citizen pays in taxes, the fed government spends <$1.00 in NY. They are explicitly not takers.

That chart is per capita.

I’ve been saying for a while that Trump is not a president, but and anti-president, since erasing anything bearing his predecessor’s name is the only thing he’s actually driven to do.

At first,I was looking at this like the no-brainer that it is,trying to figure out why he’s willing to throw a gazillion dollars at some stupid wall because of “campaign promises” vs. a very real and present issue in the form of this tunnel.