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The Ministry of Transport (DOT) stops financing for two of the largest infrastructure projects in New York City – the Hudson Tunnel and the Second Avenue metro – which freezes almost $ 18 billion of federal money.
Vice -president JD Vance Printed on the impact of financing cuts on New York City, defended the approach of the Republicans of the closure.
“We want to do everything we can to help the American people. But when the Democrats close the government, we actually have to do a little triage to ensure that the most critical and most essential services are provided,” VANCE said reporters in the White House.
Moreover, the source said that the Trump administration is planning to investigate whether the contracts of millions of dollars are linked to the massive transition expansion projects of New York were influenced by Diversity, fairness and inclusion (Dei) initiatives.
However, the source added that the process for assessing those contracts is also frozen in the midst of the financing course.
A line of serious storms moves on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 about the American Capitol in Washington. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images/Getty Images)
The stopped financing threatens to postpone progress on the Hudson tunnel, a critical component designed to modernize the rail infrastructure between New York and New JerseyAs well as the long-awaited expansion of the second Avenue metro in Manhattan.
New York City’s Transit system is generally considered the lifeline of the city, whereby only the metro wears more than 3 million riders per weekday. It serves as the backbone of his economy, the shaping of residential work, neighborhoods and daily life.
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In a statement, De Dot said that New York officials informed that both projects are being revised to “determine whether unconstitutional practices are taking place”.
De Dot also said in his statement that it focused on these projects in New York “because they are perhaps the largest infrastructure initiatives in the western hemisphere, and the American people want to complete them quickly and efficiently.”
Commuters on the 72nd Street Subway Station in New York on Thursday 27 June 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg/Getty Images/Getty Images)
“Thanks to the closure of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies, USDOT’s assessment of New York’s unconstitutional practices will take more time,” said Dot, referring to the minority leader of the Senate and the minority leader of the house, who are both Democrats from New York City.
De Dot described the delay as another victim of “reckless decision of” Democrats to take the federal government hostage to give illegal immigrant benefits. “
HOLEMENTER HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY) speaks during a press conference alongside Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), after a meeting in the White House in Washington on September 29, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu/Getty images/getty images)
The Second Avenue metro for the Upper East Side from Manhattan has a long and troubled history. The project was first driven in 1929 and then stuck for decades in the midst of great depression and other economic crises.
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A short tunnel was dug in the 1970s between 110th and 120th streets, but construction was abandoned when the city no longer had money. The construction was picked up again in 2007 with the first phase of the project, which extends the service to East 96th Street.
A tunnel under construction in the Second Avenue Subway project on November 23, 2021 in New York City. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images / Getty images)
The second stage of the project is expected to bring three new metro stations north of 96th Street, so that the transit service will eventually be expanded to East Harlem. The new train lines are expected to give more than 100,000 residents more convenient metro service.
