DEMS/GOP/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has threatened to veto a massive omnibus spending package if it includes money for the Gateway tunnel project in New York City, according to multiple sources. … While it is highly unusual for a Republican president to threaten a veto on a funding bill coming from a GOP-run Congress — and risking a potential government shutdown — Trump is adamant in his opposition to the federal government underwriting the project, the sources said. … House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) has been leading the effort to insert Gateway funding in the omnibus. Frelinghuysen, who is retiring this year, wants to include $900 million or more in the bill. But he faces opposition from some House GOP conservatives, who believe that the price tag is too high. … Senate Republicans have also not agreed to Frelinghuysen’s demands. And the White House has no love for the New Jersey Republican, who voted against the tax-cut bill, Trump’s major legislative accomplishment. ‘This is all Trump personally,’ said a GOP source on Capitol Hill. ‘He is not going to go for any Gateway [funding].’ … Schumer slammed the White House for ‘playing politics’ with one of the most high-profile infrastructure projects in the country. ‘This is vitally important to the northeast corridor and to the entire U.S. economy,’ Schumer said in a statement to POLITICO. ‘Jobs, income, and growth are all at stake. No one should be playing politics with it.'”
– John Bresnahan, Burgess Everett and Eliana Johnson, “Trump threatens veto over Gateway tunnel funding,” Politico, Mar. 8, 2018 1:32pm