Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stumped for New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill on Thursday, highlighting her efforts to save the billion-dollar Hudson River tunnel project known as Gateway—a project that President Donald Trump has vowed to cancel during the GOP government shutdown.

“President Trump has announced his intention to kill or, in his words, ‘terminate’ the project out of spite,” Buttigieg said at an event at the Westfield train station in New Jersey. “Let's be clear, the president didn't say that this project isn't a good idea, or that it isn't a good use of money, or that New Jersey doesn't need it, or that America doesn't need it. He openly admitted that he stopped this project because he doesn't like [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer.”

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