The Trump administration moved to slash billions of dollars in federal funding for New York’s two largest infrastructure projects on Wednesday, arguing that the state violates the Constitution by mandating that some of the work goes to minority- and women-owned businesses.

The MTA’s Second Avenue subway extension into East Harlem and the Gateway program’s new Hudson River train tunnels are both subject to cuts, U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said in a post on X .

The feds agreed to a $3.4 billion grant under former President Joe Biden to help fund the subway extension, covering nearly half of its projected $7.7 billion cost. The former administration also signed off on $6.8 billion to fund the Gateway project.

Vought said those two grants are part

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