Trump Says $20 Billion Project Schumer Wants Is ‘Pretty Much Dead’

President Donald Trump said the government shutdown had given him license to eliminate “a $20 billion project” in Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s home state of New York, without specifying which one.

“We’re cutting Democrat programs that we didn’t want because, I mean, they made one mistake, they didn’t realize that. That gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans never wanted, you know, giveaways, welfare programs, etc.,” the president said in an excerpt of an interview that will be broadcast on Fox Business on Sunday.