Blast Prez for lack of tunnel $

Gov. Cuomo wants President Trump to get his priorities straight.

Cuomo slammed Trump in a letter issued Tuesday, blasting his border wall and calling on the commander-in-chief to fund renovations of the Gateway Tunnel after a federal report released last week slapped a “medium-low” priority label on the project.

“You’ve marketed yourself as an astute businessman, so how could you be so blind to the obvious national economic urgency of this project?” Cuomo asked in the letter.

“It’s unconscionable that the sole infrastructure project that your administration remains focused on is a wall that nobody needs while the economy of the Northeast and the entire nation hangs in the balance,” the governor added.

Cuomo has been trying for months to get the President to pony up the billions needed to revamp the rail tunnels connecting New York and New Jersey under the Hudson. He even showed the President videos of the crumbling tunnels during a trip to the White House in November.

A study released by the Federal Transit Administration, which evaluates local public transit projects, noted the existing 108-year-old tunnels, owned by Amtrak, present “reliability” challenges because of damage they suffered during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and called the $13.7 billion price tag “reasonable.”

But the White House’s 2020 budget proposal, also released last week, included no funding for the project.

“I call on you to join us once and for all to build the Gateway Tunnel Project,” Cuomo wrote. “With this project, we can deliver for the national economy and restore this country’s role as a global leader in infrastructure.”

The Democratic governor said the federal refusal to fund the project is just the latest in a volley of Trump-led attacks targeting New York and other states that didn’t vote for him in 2016 — following budget cuts and capping of state and local tax deductions that have harmed Democratic states.