Trump threatens veto over Gateway tunnel funding

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




The move could complicate efforts to avoid a government shutdown this month.

By JOHN BRESNAHAN, BURGESS EVERETT and ELIANA JOHNSON 03/08/2018 01:32 PM EST

President Donald Trump has threatened to veto a massive omnibus spending package if it includes money for the Gateway tunnel project in New York City, according to multiple sources.

Trump's threat has complicated the outlook for the $1 trillion-plus spending measure, which Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) want to pass before government funding runs out on March 23.

While it is highly unusual for a Republican president to threaten a veto on a funding bill coming from a GOP-run Congress — and risking a potential government shutdown — Trump is adamant in his opposition to the federal government underwriting the project, the sources said.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) has been leading the effort to insert Gateway funding in the omnibus. Frelinghuysen, who is retiring this year, wants to include $900 million or more in the bill.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/08/trump-gateway-funding-veto-445926

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Would the vote be veto-proof?

[Sophia4]

2. We really need better rail service here in California.

I suppose that the airlines oppose expanding train service.

But trains are really important.

[lark]

3. He will fuck us all as often as he can.

How the major hell could his party even think of passing a bill which didn't personally enrich him, he's just not having it at all, screams the 2 year old fat orange toddler.

[IronLionZion]

4. He thinks only liberals use trains?

So he screws over people who want to travel to/from NY

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Those Omnibus bills are many hundreds of pages long

He wouldn't know what was in there (and neither would most of Congress) anyway.