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   Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project -- if Penn Station   
   and Dulles Airport are renamed after him   
   By Manu Raju   
   CNN.com   
   Feb. 5, 2026   
      
   President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last   
   month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of   
   dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure project.   
      
   But there was a condition: In exchange for the money, Schumer had to   
   agree to rename New York's Penn Station and Washington's Dulles   
   International Airport after Trump.   
      
   The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with   
   the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer, who told the   
   president he didn't have the power to deliver on such an unorthodox   
   request.   
      
   In the weeks since, Trump has continued to withhold the more than $16   
   billion earmarked for the long-planned Gateway project connecting New   
   York and New Jersey through a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River.   
      
   The two states are now suing the Trump administration over the freeze,   
   alleging in a complaint filed earlier this week that the funding   
   suspension is unlawful.   
      
   A spokesperson for Schumer declined to comment. The White House did not   
   respond to a request for comment.   
      
   The episode, first reported by Punchbowl, offers a fresh window into   
   Trump's ever-expanding effort to secure an outsized place in American   
   history -- and to do so in part by branding nearly everything around   
   him with his own name.   
      
   Since returning to the White House, the president has introduced a slew   
   of initiatives bearing the Trump name, including the Trump Gold Card   
   offering a high-priced path to citizenship, the TrumpRx website   
   offering lower-priced prescription drugs, and a new Trump-class   
   battleship meant to solidify his era of "peace through strength"   
   foreign policy for years to come.   
      
   Trump in recent months has set his sights on even bigger targets:   
   Adding his name first to the US Institute of Peace and then, even more   
   controversially, to Washington's iconic Kennedy Center.   
      
   Still, Trump's offer to Schumer would have represented perhaps his most   
   audacious move yet, an apparent attempt to leverage the future of a   
   massive infrastructure project to fulfill his own personal wishes.   
      
   The commission in charge of the Gateway tunnel has warned that it will   
   soon have to shut down work on the project and lay off roughly 1,000   
   workers if the Trump administration does not release the funding it   
   needs.   
      
   The tunnel's construction predates Trump's return to office, with the   
   federal government on the hook for a significant portion of the funding   
   needed to complete it. But Trump moved to halt the project late last   
   year, a decision that Democratic officials in New Jersey and New York   
   have argued was politically motivated.   
      
   Schumer has since played a central role in trying to negotiate the   
   unfreezing of the funding. Yet despite that priority, there's little   
   that the Democrat could conceivably do on his own to put Trump's name   
   on either Penn Station or Dulles Airport.   
      
   While some conservative lawmakers have already introduced legislation   
   to rename Dulles as the "Donald J. Trump International Airport," it's   
   so far gained little traction.   
      
   The legislation has not advanced in the GOP-controlled Congress, and as   
   a result remains unlikely to pass.   
      
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