Congressman Espaillat and Assemblymember Gibbs Condemn Trump Administration Halting Vital Funding for New York City Infrastructure

WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and New York State Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration's efforts to freeze funding for New York City transit and infrastructure, including vital support for the Gateway Project and Second Avenue Subway expansion to East Harlem and New York's 13th congressional district.

"The White House's decision to threaten the Gateway Project and Second Avenue Subway, our nation's most critical infrastructure projects, is another exhibit of the reckless partisanship and bad governance that triggered this Republican government shutdown," said Rep. Espaillat. "Shame on Russell Vought and the Trump administration for harming our national security and punishing New Yorkers with this DC political gamesmanship and negatively impacting the tens of thousands of East Harlem residents who have suffered without transportation access for decades."

"Let's be clear: this isn't about 'DEI', this is retaliation, plain and simple, and East Harlem is the one paying the price. It's always poor communities that suffer the most from these games. This isn't a game - stop treating it like one. Stop playing with people's lives. We need fewer professional politicians and more people-ticians. To President Trump, let's sit down and talk this out felon-to-felon, and figure this thing out for real working-class Americans," said Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs.

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Representative Espaillat is the first Dominican American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and his congressional district includes Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill and the north-west Bronx. First elected to Congress in 2016, Representative Espaillat is serving his fifth term in Congress. Representative Espaillat currently serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for funding the federal government's vital activities and serves as Ranking Member of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the committee during the 119th Congress. He is Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and serves as a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus. To find out more about Rep. Espaillat, visit online at https://espaillat.house.gov/.

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