‘Positive’ Trump vibes on tunnel

PRESIDENT TRUMP was “very positive” toward a multibilliondollar plan to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River at a White House confab last week, but “the fat lady hasn’t sung yet,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday.

Schumer (D-N.Y.), Gov. Cuomo and members of the New York congressional delegation met Thursday with Trump about the $24 billion Gateway project, which would include building two tubes under the Hudson River for Amtrak and NJ Transit trains — allowing repairs to the current aging tunnels that officials fear could fail and cripple the region.

The meeting came as Schumer, the Senate minority leader, emerged last week as a key dealmaker with Trump — striking an agreement to raise the debt ceiling alongside Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House minority leader, that sidestepped leaders from Trump’s Republican Party. Schumer said he and Trump privately discussed the President’s move to terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects some young immigrants from deportation. Trump’s action leaves it up to Congress to pass a bill that would allow the immigrants to stay, but Schumer stressed Democrats won’t trade the legislation for support for the border wall Trump wants.