By Jim Geraghty
Friday, February 06, 2026
The president of the United States is withholding
congressionally appropriated federal funding for a major infrastructure
project, in violation of the law, because he wants existing transportation hubs to be renamed
after him.
The Trump
administration asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for the
Washington region’s Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station to
be named after President Donald Trump in exchange for releasing the federal
funds required to build a long-delayed tunnel between New York and New Jersey,
multiple sources told NBC News.
The administration
halted funding for the $16 billion Gateway project at the start of the federal
government shutdown last fall. But even though the shutdown ended in November
and the full appropriations packages passed this week, the administration has yet
to release the money. . . .
White House budget
director Russell Vought said at the time that he was stopping funding for
infrastructure projects to “ensure” it wasn’t used “on unconstitutional DEI
principles.”
When the president repeatedly expressed gleeful celebration after the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife,
I wrote that he “cannot discern moral right and wrong through a person’s
actions, like a normal human being.” When the president texted Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that “considering
your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8
Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” I wrote, “In a saner and better world, we would be having a
serious discussion of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution right now.” I’ve
repeatedly pointed out that Trump told the Iranian protesters “HELP IS ON ITS
WAY” and no help has arrived for 25 days now.
I know, I know. I’m the one who has “Trump
derangement syndrome.”
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