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Pete Buttigieg: “The President is holding a $16 billion round of funding for…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 17:24

And that is a result of really not so much technical but political barriers here. The number of steps you have to get through to get anything funded, the uncertainty of funding. I mean right now The President is holding a $16 billion round of funding for a tunnel that is more than 100 years old in New York, New Jersey, the Hudson Tunnels. they're 110 years old. They were damaged by Superstorm Sandy. That was more than a decade ago. Hundreds of thousands of people a day go through this tunnel. (17:24–17:37)

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Asserts that the President is holding funding for a $16 billion project for the Hudson Tunnels.

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