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On the recordOctober 1, 2025
The Trump administration is targeting the jobs, thousands of jobs of hard-working Americans. Working-class Americans and blue collar Americans will lose the ability to work at the Second Avenue Subway site or at the other project that has been canceled related to the Cross-Harbor Tunnel.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries discusses the impact of the Trump administration's funding freeze on jobs in New York infrastructure projects.

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