Eduardo Cuevas at USA TODAY reports the Nation’s largest infrastructure project has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire in his latest fight with Congressional Democrats. Trump has vowed to end the Gateway Tunnel Project meant to expand train service between New York and New Jersey along the Nation’s busiest rail corridor. The project - meant to create a new rail tunnel and rehabilitate the existing 115-year-old pair of tunnels under the Hudson River, has already begun construction at several sites with hundreds of workers operating as of October 17th. That hasn’t stopped Trump from threatening the $16 billion project. The project, set to build nine miles of new passenger rail track with a two-tube tunnel, is set to be completed by 2035. The old rail tunnel is expected to be repaired and back in service by 2038. The project has been billed as bringing tens of thousands of jobs, tens of billions of dollars in economic activity and increasing transit ridership with four tracks instead of the current two. Laborers Eastern Regional Manager Mike Hellstrom said the funding cut likely means delays for a multi-generational project, which means extra costs and potential job losses. The project already has five active construction sites in New York, New Jersey and in the Hudson, he said. Shafts and portal entrances are being built ahead of boring machines expected to arrive around January. "There's a lot on the line for us as Working People," Hellstrom said. "There's also a lot on the line for the rail riders."

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