Omnibus Showdown: Trump Threatens Spending Bill Veto if Schumer-Backed New York ‘Gateway’ Pork Insid

[Right_in_Virginia]

Omnibus Showdown: Trump Threatens Spending Bill Veto if Schumer-Backed New York ‘Gateway’ Pork Inside
Breitbart, Mar 12, 2018, Matthew Boyle

President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the mega-omnibus spending bill barreling its way through Congress ahead of the March 23 government funding deadline if it contains a pork pet project for New York and New Jersey that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, wants in the bill.

Efforts to insert into the omnibus spending bill $900 million in funding for the New York-New Jersey “Gateway” project—a series of tunnels and bridges between Newark and Manhattan to improve traffic flow—are being led by Schumer and House GOP Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ). Frelinghuysen, who is retiring at the end of his current term, controls the purse strings in the House of Representatives and has an enormous amount of influence and power over the spending process from his perch atop the House Appropriations Committee. But, as reported by a number of outlets last week—and confirmed by Breitbart News—it is President Trump who is standing against the boondoggle pet project, which has already skyrocketed exorbitantly beyond initial estimates.

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Schumer considers this Gateway Project a top priority of his personally, and has made that clear for years. He and Frelinghuysen among others are attempting to insert the funding for this project into the omnibus spending bill coming up now—even though his state of New York and neighboring New Jersey, the only two states that will directly benefit from it, are putting up exactly no money for this.

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Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), a liberal Democrat from New York, asked her: “Is the president of the United States personally intervening with the speaker to kill this project?”

“Yes,” Chao responded. “The president is concerned about the viability of this project and the fact that New York and New Jersey have no skin in the game. They need to step up and bear their fair share. They are two of the richest states in the country. If they absorb all these funds, there will be no other funds for the rest of the country.”




More:  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/12/omnibus-showdown-trump-threatens-spending-bill-veto-if-schumer-backed-new-york-gateway-pork-inside/

[endicom]

$900 million would be a down payment on a project like this. It looks as viable as Jerry Brown's choo choo or the Big Dig in Massachusetts.

[edpc]

Guess earmarks aren't such a great idea, after all......