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Transit agency sues Trump over frozen funds for NY subway project

Transit agency sues Trump over frozen funds for NY subway project

Workers are seen on the construction site of the Second Avenue Subway station on October 02, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The Metropolitan Transportation Authority sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for withholding nearly $60 million from a major New York City subway project. The breach-of-contract lawsuit — filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims — over funding for the $7.7 billion Second Avenue Subway project is the latest in a series of legal challenges to the U.S. Transportation Department’s decision to suspend funding for some projects at the start of a government shutdown last fall. USDOT and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Manhattan subway project is designed to shorten commutes for more than 100,000 daily riders, and the current portion will extend the Q subway line 1.76 miles into East Harlem and Harlem and add three new subway stations. The Second Avenue line has been under consideration since the 1920s. “Once again, New York has been forced to sue …

Trump releases overdue funds for NY-NJ Gateway tunnel: Hochul

Trump releases overdue funds for NY-NJ Gateway tunnel: Hochul

The Gateway Tunnel site near W. 30th St. and 11th Ave. in Hudson Yards, Manhattan on Oct. 23, 2025. Barry Williams | New York Daily News | Getty Images The Trump administration on Wednesday released the rest of the funds it had been withholding for the construction of a major rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday. The federal government freed up the remaining $98 million due for the Gateway project that is increasing passenger rail capacity into Manhattan, as well as an additional $30 million in reimbursements for work that had been completed in January, Hochul said in a statement. The frozen funds were released in tranches over nearly two weeks after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from withholding the money for the project that began construction in 2023. In compliance with that Feb. 6 order, the administration released $30 million on Feb. 13, followed by an additional $77 million earlier this week. The funding suspension, initiated on the eve of the Oct. 1 government …