After Mr. Trump’s budget was released, Mr. Christie said he would fight any cuts to the Gateway project, which could cost $23 billion.
Mr. Trump’s proposed cuts have reverberated across the country with transit agencies worried
that an array of projects could be halted or delayed, including a subway extension in Los Angeles, a light rail plan in Maryland and a rapid transit bus line in Kansas City, Mo.
“New York has the most ambitious building plan in the nation,
and it’s absurd the federal government claimed these projects were a priority one day and then cut funding for them the next,” Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.
Mr. Trump’s budget blueprint proposed slashing a major source of federal funding for transit projects, known as New Starts grants.
