DC: Freedom Caucus Chairman Rips Gateway Funding: Trump Campaigned on a Wall, Not a Tunnel

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Wednesday slammed the expected inclusion of funding for a multibillion-dollar rail project in the New York metro region in must-pass government spending legislation, arguing President Trump campaigned for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border instead of a tunnel.

Meadows’s comments come as lawmakers race to pass an omnibus spending package ahead of a March 23 deadline to avert a third government shutdown this year.

The Gateway rail reconstruction project, which includes restoring the tunnel under the Hudson River, has become a sticking point in the ongoing government funding negotiations.

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