Dig, Baby, Dig!

As U.S. secretary of transportation, Elaine Chao oversees America’s roads, bridges, and rail networks. Not surprisingly, then, she has some trouble explaining her boss’s opposition to the single most important infrastructure project in America.

The Gateway project is a plan to build two new train tunnels from New Jersey into Manhattan. “The president is concerned about the viability of this project and the fact that New York and New Jersey have no skin in the game,” she told a congressional hearing last week. “They need to step up and bear their fair share.”