Garbled Trump tunnel threat signals scramble to save face after court smackdown
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Just days after retreating from his threat to withhold $16 billion in federal funding for a critical tunnel project, President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to denounce the project as a “disaster,” while simultaneously outlining an apparent offramp that could help him save face.The “Gatew...

The Trump administration complied last week with a judge who ordered the unfreezing the project’s federal funding. And on Monday, Trump carved out an offramp for himself to still maintain some control on the project.

“Please let this statement represent the fact that, under no circumstances, will the Federal Government be responsible for ANY COST OVERRUNS – NOT ONE DOLLAR!” Trump wrote, in a confusing message that suggested measures would be put in place to stop that happening.

  • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    president Donald Trump took to social media Monday to denounce the project as a “disaster,”

    Is that’s why it had to be named after him ??