Long Island Republican Rep. Pete King hopes his gift of gab convinced Trump to support funding a
stalled rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey, saying the two conferred about the $ 30 billion Gateway
Project the president has vowed to block during the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon on Capitol Hill.
If New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund, which funds transportation
projects, were broke, for example, governors would raid the Port Authority, the way Christie diverted funds set aside for Access to the Region's Core (ARC), the
stalled rail tunnel
project under the Hudson River to Manhattan, to rebuild the Pulaski Skyway.