"I said to [Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought], 'Don't send any money for daycare because the United States can't take care of daycare.' That has to be up to a state. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars."
Sunnyside Yard has all the ingredients that Trump could wish for. The project involves building a massive platform over the sunken tracks, which will require substantial federal funding. Amtrak owns much of the railyard, and the government effectively owns Amtrak, which means the president can largely set the terms.
According to Malliotakis, the largest amount of money - $5 million - will go toward renovating a building on Staten Island that will be used for EMS classroom training. The exact location was not immediately clear. Currently, personnel must travel to either Randall's Island or northeastern Queens for training, requiring them to be placed out of service and unavailable for duty during those sessions.
McConnell had checked himself in last week "after experiencing flu-like symptoms," a spokesperson said. "Senator McConnell was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is grateful for the outstanding care he received," McConnell's spokesperson said Wednesday. "He is feeling better and will be working from home this week on the advice of his doctors."
MANHATTAN - THE GATEWAY COMMISSION SUED the U.S. Department of Transportation, alleging the agency is withholding $205,275,358 in contractually required payments for the $16 billion Hudson River rail tunnel project and forcing a potential work stoppage Feb. 6 that could cost about 1,000 jobs, reports The case, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, comes as the Gateway Development Commission warns its credit line is exhausted and contractors may be unable to keep building sites active on both sides of the river.
On January 15, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $75.1 million for humanities projects across the country. Presented as part of President Donald Trump's January 25, 2025 executive order, "Celebrating America's Birthday," the move is the latest example of how the Trump administration is increasingly using federal funding as a vehicle to achieve its broader goals of reshaping higher education.
The law directs $2.3 billion over the next four years to state and local law enforcement to encourage them to take part in the federal immigration crackdown. The Justice Department has nearly $1 billion for state and local prison/jail space; ICE has about three-quarters of a billion for state and local agencies that help ICE and over half a billion for joining the 287(g) task force program, the most active form of officer cooperation with ICE operations.
