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Trump administration freezes $18 billion in funding for New York’s Hudson River rail tunnel and Second Avenue subway expansion projects.

White House blames diversity policies while officials privately cite government shutdown. The move appears to target Senate leader Charles E. Schumer.

Funding suspension affects major transit infrastructure serving hundreds of thousands of daily passengers across New York-New Jersey corridor.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Wednesday that it was putting a hold on roughly $18 billion to fund a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey and the city’s expanded Second Avenue subway project because of the go

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