NEW YORK (AP) — The group overseeing a project to build a new rail tunnel into New York City is meeting a week after federal officials expressed doubts about a plan to pay its estimated $13 billion price tag.
The Gateway project has been in the planning stages for several years.
Last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced how their states would pay for 50 percent of the project. Under a prior agreement with then-President Barack Obama, the federal government was to pay the other half.
President Donald Trump hasn't said whether that agreement remains.
Through a spokesman, the Department of Transportation dismissed the states' announcement last week as "not a serious plan," because the federal government would be responsible for all the upfront funding.