President Joe Biden will announce nearly $300 million in funding for work on a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River
NEW YORK — President Joe Biden has spent months fending off public angst about supply chain woes, air travel meltdowns and a rail strike that could have sunk the economy.
“For years, people talked about fixing this tunnel. With the bipartisan infrastructure law, though, we’re finally getting it done,” the pro-Amtrak president said Monday near a 150-year-old rail tunnel in Baltimore, where he hailed more than $6 billion in upgrades that will allow trains to travel through the city at up to 110 mph. Whistles from two Amtrak engines sounded off to mark the start of construction of a new tunnel, named after Frederick Douglass.
White House aides also said Biden himself, long a lover of trains, has said he was delighted to partake in the unveiling of rail projects so close together. And he has never tired of joking about the failures of his predecessor’s so-called “infrastructure weeks” when Biden himself can tout a legislative milestone that will stand for decades.Chuck Schumer
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