NYC, NJ Business Groups Urge Trump to Restore Gateway Funds (1)

Business leaders, labor groups and transit advocates are calling on the Trump administration to restore funding to a $16 billion rail tunnel that links New Jersey and Manhattan as work on the project is set to shut down on Friday absent federal dollars.

Heads of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Partnership for New York City, New York Building Congress, Regional Plan Association and organized labor and transit groups sent a letter Wednesday to President Donald Trump, warning that stopping construction would increase the project’s costs and create unnecessary delays.

A construction site for the Gateway tunnel project in New York on Oct. 3, 2025.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

The new tunnel, called Gateway, would ...