Trump promised to allocate $16 billion for the New York City project in exchange for the train station.

US President Donald Trump promised Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer to allocate $16 billion for an infrastructure project in New York in exchange for renaming Penn Station in his honor. This was reported on February 5 by CNN, citing sources.

"Trump announced that he is finally ready to lift the ban on the allocation of billions of dollars for a major infrastructure project in New York. But there was one condition: in exchange for the money, Schumer had to agree to rename Penn Station in New York and Dulles International Airport in Washington in honor of Trump," the publication says.

Schumer refused to comply with the American leader's condition, citing the lack of such authority.

The money was to be used for a new railroad tunnel under the Hudson River that would connect New York and New Jersey.

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President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the gulf will be called American only on the continental shelf of the United States, for the whole world it will still be the Gulf of Mexico.

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