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Chuck Schumer: “I put into the legislation, the infrastructure legislation…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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NABTU Legislative Conference 2026 - Sen. Schumer Remarks

Published | Video Starts at 13:36

So now we need those new tunnels or they'll collapse and the whole economy will go to hell in a handbasket. And so I put into the legislation, the infrastructure legislation, over $19 billion to build Gateway. because it's the future of the whole Northeast and the whole of America, because if the Northeast goes into recession, so does the whole country. We made sure that the federal government funded it. (13:36–13:45)

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Asserts that $19 billion was allocated for the Gateway project in infrastructure legislation.

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