Trump Holds Up Funding To Get His Name On Stuff: Report

Friday, February 06, 2026

President Donald Trump last month told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that he would be willing to unfreeze $16 billion in funding for a major infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename New York's Penn Station and Washington's Dulles Airport after him, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News.

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NEW: According to Punchbowl News, Trump told Schumer he'd remove a block on the Gateway Tunnel funds if Schumer helped name Dulles Airport and Penn Station after him. The Gateway Development Commission has already sued Trump for blocking the funds: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/n ...

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"Officials in New York and New Jersey said if the money isn't freed-up by Friday, the project would stop, leaving approximately 1,000 construction jobs in jeopardy.

Sources told ABC that Schumer rejected Trump's offer."

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Schumer should just agree and then name them Putin Station and Dullwit Airport.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-06 11:19 AM | Reply

Donald Trump is completely out of his mind.

#2 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-02-06 11:22 AM | Reply

Schumer and Trump both need to be flushed down the -------. One wants to ruin America for white supremacist MAGAts and the other wants to ruin America for white supremacist genociders in Israel.

#3 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-02-06 11:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Extortion is such a dirty word and is so on point for the worst president in history.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-02-06 01:18 PM | Reply

EXTORTION, MURDER, RAPE, PEDOPHILIA...to name a few.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-06 03:32 PM | Reply

He's a criminal, a traitor and a moron, but let's not overlook his insufferable vanity!

#6 | Posted by cbob at 2026-02-06 04:01 PM | Reply

Extortioner Dummkopf Trumpf: "Listen, Chuck, I'm making you an offer you can't refuse."

Mealy-mouthed Chuck Schumer: "Yeah, OK, but what's in it for Israel?"

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-06 04:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"STOP USING THE WORD FASCISM!"

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-02-06 04:36 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Trump is an ignorant man; unlike many other would-be or actual dictators, he does not read books and has difficulty writing more than a few badly spelled sentences on social media."

Eliot A. Cohen

#9 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-02-06 06:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Dementia Donnie is lapping Biden on the "my brain no work" track.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-06 07:26 PM | Reply

This is a great way to make friends with Trump voters in the construction trades in the New York metro area, said only one person ever ...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2026-02-07 08:34 AM | Reply

Two can play this game. Release the funding or they will change the street name so that all mail to trump tower will have to be addressed to their address on Barak Obama blvd.

#12 | Posted by bus_driver at 2026-02-07 11:25 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

I'd just agree, then name them Mango Mussolini Airport, and------------- Station.

Heck, you can even shorten the second to Rapistation.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-07 11:33 AM | Reply

If there's one thing Schumer is good at it's --------- Trump.

Trump will get everything he demands and more.

It's the Chuck Schumer motto, "I will bend the knee!"

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-07 12:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Chuck Schumer is the personification of weakness.

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-02-07 12:50 PM | Reply

Judge orders Trump administration to resume funding Hudson Tunnel Project
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... A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restore more than$200 million in federal funding for a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River, on the very day the project ran out of cash and was winding down construction.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Joe Biden appointee in the Southern District of New York, granted a temporary restraining order just hours after presiding over an emergency hearing on the project's fate.

In an 11-page ruling, Vargas found that "the public interest would be harmed by a delay in a critical infrastructure project." ...

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-07 03:09 PM | Reply

"Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Israel) said that he would fight to get Israel "all the aid that it needs."

"I will fight for aid to Israel. All the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it," the Senate minority leader boasted on Saturday. He went on to refer to Israel aid as his "baby."

As if Israel needs our money. All Israeli residents are covered with universal healthcare which is ranked in the top ten in the world. Here in the US we have United HealthCare and Dr Mehmet Oz.

And Israel's social security system is rated higher than America's too.

Too bad Chuck Schumer doesn't fight with the same passion and conviction for us New Yorkers and Americans. He didn't endorse fellow Democrat Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor.

Source: Our Money Sent to Israel Like Clockwork Every Year

Lickspittle Chuck Schumer = Uriah Heep

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-07 03:27 PM | Reply