Amtrak Audit Describes ‘Notable Progress’ in Gateway Tunnel Project

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Federal investigators discovered an accounting error worth about $116 million and a delay in the purchase of key construction materials in a key piece of the massive Gateway tunnel-and-bridge public works project.

But otherwise, an audit last week by the inspector general for Amtrak gave a generally clean bill for the multi-billion Hudson Tunnel project, even as President Donald Trump threatened to end its federal funding.