NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- President Donald Trump is renewing his calls and plans on Wednesday to strip the Tri-State of billions of dollars, including funds to help build the new Hudson Gateway Tunnel.

The Trump Administration had already said it was freezing infrastructure funding for projects like the Second Avenue Subway extension.

On Wednesday, the president seemed to go a step further.

"This is not only jobs. I mean the project in Manhattan, the project in New York. It's billions and billions of dollars that Schumer has worked 20 years to get. It's terminated. Tell him it's terminated," Trump said.

Senator Chuck Schumer responded Wednesday night, saying the Gateway Project is one of the most important infrastructure projects in America and called it vindictive and reckless.

"Don

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