Brian Lehrer Weekend: Sen. Kim on Gateway Defunding, Moving NYC Local Elections to Presidential Election Years, Cats
The Brian Lehrer Show
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lairer here. |
| 0:01.3 | Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, packaged together, for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.6 | So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. |
| 0:11.2 | on WNYC and WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We're going to start today with some |
| 0:40.7 | breaking news for New York and New Jersey that also is breaking news for the nation. President |
| 0:45.6 | Trump, if you haven't heard this yet, said yesterday he would use the government shutdown to |
| 0:51.3 | permanently cancel the gateway tunnel already under construction |
| 0:55.7 | as a major upgrade for Amtrak and the NJ Transit, New Jersey Transit Commuter Railroad, |
| 1:01.8 | into and out of Manhattan. It's not just an upgrade. It's also a long-awaited repair |
| 1:07.0 | since Superstorm Sandy back in 2012. But here's the president at his news conference yesterday, |
| 1:13.6 | responding to a reporter's question. The project in Manhattan, the project in New York, |
| 1:18.6 | it's billions and billions of dollars that Schumer has worked 20 years to get. It's terminated. |
| 1:27.4 | Terminated. Schumer responded by saying to the New York Times, and of course |
| 1:31.8 | Schumer is the senator from New York and the Senate minority leader, Schumer responded by saying, |
| 1:38.3 | Gateway is the most important infrastructure project in America, period. Donald Trump trying to |
| 1:44.1 | kill it again is pure spite and |
| 1:46.9 | stupidity. It's petty revenge politics that would screw hundreds of thousands of New York and New Jersey |
| 1:53.0 | commuters, choke off our economy and kill good-paying jobs, unquote, from Chuck Schumer. |
| 1:59.1 | Governor Kathy Hochel amplified that. She said, this is not |
| 2:03.2 | sticking it to New York. This is the northeastern corridor to make sure that our tunnels are safe. |
| 2:08.8 | They're damaged by Superstorm Sandy. And she said on MSNBC, if this system of transportation |
| 2:15.5 | collapses, the northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses. |
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