Seems obvious to me why TSF cancelled funding for NJ/NY Gateway Project

[no_hypocrisy]

(the replacement tunnel under the Hudson River) and the capital improvements for the NYC subway system: to influence the elections of the Governor of NJ and the Mayor of NY.

IOW, votes for Mikie Sherrill and Zoltan Mamdani will result in huge losses of federal aid needed to complete these projects that have already undergone construction and aren't finished.

What's implied is that if Jack Ciattarelli (Republican) is elected NJ Governor and Andrew Cuomo (Democrat, but not Mamdani) is elected Mayor of NYC, the money might be restored at a later date.

Sure, you can make a cogent argument that TSF is punishing "blue states" for not voting for him in 2024. But he supposedly won anyway. His initial "reasoning" was DEI practices. That too is not the answer to the question. It's scratching the surface why he suddenly withheld the money.

He's not going to send ICE (yet) into districts to get his choices of candidates "elected". Too soon for that to work.

This is about how to influence elections and the voters be damned.

A craven and cowardly gesture with real consequences.

[NJCher]

1. I don't think so

Voters aren’t that strategic. You give them too much credit.

Second, even if they did think that through, it wouldn’t be enough to swing an election.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Generally, I would wholly agree with you, but

I believe that this WH would try anything, logic be damned, to get control of state and local governments.

[bluedigger]

3. That project has been a political cat's paw for over two decades now.

I worked on a cemetery relocation back in 2003 for the NJ terminal in Secaucus.

[Scrivener7]

4. New York City hates Cankles and lets him know whenever possible.

This is just a hissy fit over that.