July 24, 2026
Move Over Penn Station, Next Stop…. Trump Station
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RSS Feed After months of dancing around the subject, the Trump administration has officially submitted a proposal to the Senate to change the name of New York’s storied train station, Penn Station. Notably, the request was slipped in the middle of a request for additional funding to rebuild and transform the station into a “world class” facility, and there was no specification as to what the new name would be, however, several recent responses from administration officials leaves little doubt. The push back and reaction has already begun, one New York politician calling it “a hostile takeover of Penn Station.”
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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. It is Friday, July twenty fourth. Next stop, New York's Trump Station. Yes, there is a Trump station possibly coming to New York. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Let's be clear here, no, no, no, no, no, Robes. We wouldn't just be talking about this if they were building some brand new, state of the art train station in New York that's gonna bear his name. Ah, they want to put his name on, Robes one of the most iconic, one of the most famous landmarks we have in all of New York.
00:00:36
Speaker 2: That's right, Bye bye Penn Station, Hello Trump Station. Look, they've been dancing around this for months now, and finally it's in writing.
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Speaker 3: Kinda.
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Speaker 2: They have officially asked for a name change, but they have not said yet officially what that name would be changed too.
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Speaker 1: Being cute, here are we.
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Speaker 2: Really going to Okay, obviously, they are talking about renaming this iconic, storied train station to honor President Trump, who is going to be refurbishing the place, so therefore he should have his name on the building. That's exactly the same argument, or the same line of reasoning that was used for the Kennedy Center. You all.
00:01:25
Speaker 1: This one's a mess. It's not just the idea. There's some backstory here. It's not just rope. The idea of taking like something that iconic who's had that's had a name since nineteen ten, by the way, to take that off and just put his name up on it. Rose. There's some behind the scenes, some dealing, some trading, some blackmailing, even withholding the accusations holding withholding money unless he gets his way. It's really he's being described, at least the behavior is being described as a petulant, spoiled child. I am not going to share. I am not going to get unless I get my way. I am not going to release billions of dollars for funding in New York Robes. That is the accusation against the president right now.
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Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's surprised by it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you would. I'm sorry. I was expecting more from you on that.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, you can't see her.
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Speaker 1: She's looking at my face like you got more or we're moving on to the next thing. That's that's all you got, Yes, Robes, that's what we talk. But it's coming up now, because like you said, it's now in writing they've been dancing around, and we'll get to the delicate dance they've been doing. But ropes. An official letter was sent by the Transportation Secretary to the heads of several committees at the Senate, and they put it in writing.
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Speaker 3: They absolutely did.
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Speaker 2: They put this yes to three Senate committees, and Sean Duffy, headed the Transportation Department, said, I am pleased to submit these proposals for surface Transportation reauthorization to advance the President's vision for a bold transportation future.
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Speaker 1: So yes, this is him saying, these are our priorities, this is what we'd like, this is what we want to do with this money that we're requesting. So a section in their robes is titled additional Administration Priorities, And this is where we're going to read it all to you, because you have to wait to the end to see how it was kind of sneaked in. It didn't seem to go along with the other things they listed, and so that's why I thought it was important to give the actual text.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so here is the letter.
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Speaker 2: We have a unique opportunity, through reauthorization efforts to address key initiatives, particularly those related to transforming new York Penn Station. Transform New York Penn Station. It will be rebuilt into a brand new, world class station. To transform the station, we urge Congress to first authorize an additional one billion in Federal State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program funding for New York Pen's design and construction. They also want to incorporate the McDowell Amendment to insert a new section into Title forty nine to permit Amtrak to enter into agreements requiring payments in lieu of taxes.
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Speaker 3: Okay, number three.
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Speaker 2: They want to increase the railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement financing cap from thirty five billion to fifty billion. And also they would like to direct Ambtract to rename New York Penn Station.
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Speaker 1: All that money and technical stuff in this program and that they list all these things and direct Abtract to rename the station. That's all it said. Ropes, but it's in there. That's all it said. In a list of things that are an administration priority for how to move Pen Station forward. They need to change the name. Do you see any reason? Why does anything make sense? Like it's not identifiable, it's in New York, Why should it have a Pennsylvania another state name? Does any logic? Can you give me any reason you would go? Okay, I could see if they.
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Speaker 2: Want to change it, you're saying to anything other than Trump, Like, why would want to change pen Station's name?
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Speaker 1: We are New Yorkers. Is there anything someone could say to us, not about his name, but just wanting to change it to whatever the sponsorship? Could you get behind somebody giving you a legitimate reason to change it at all? To anything?
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Speaker 2: No, I can't think of a legitimate reason. Why would you need to change it? It's like, why would you change the name of the Empire State Building or a Grand Central Terminal or penn Station. These are just iconic parts of this city that we know and love and have referred to for decades upon decades.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 2: And look, there are already illustrations for plans for the redesign of the station, and they're already If you look at the plans and the illustrations, there is a large engraving on an interior wall that would be on the main concourse that has Trump's name on it.
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Speaker 3: So they're already planning.
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Speaker 2: They've already submitted some interior designs where his name is going to be on this huge wall.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that good enough? Fine, there's a plaque, it'll be there forever.
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Speaker 3: Great. I think that's fine.
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Speaker 2: If he if he facilitated the funding and he urged pushed forward the redesign effort to overhaul this iconic and yes, it does need a facelift, and I think everyone who's been in that station can fully agree, and we welcome a beautification of a station that is used by millions every day.
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Speaker 1: I got I'm confused, and I'm not confused. But because Moynihan across the street there opened four or five years ago, and it's gorgeous. The thing right across the street from Madison Square Garden, they're on eighth Is I have that right? Seventh or eighth.
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Speaker 2: I think it's goes down the Grand The new Grand entrance would be on eighth Avenue.
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Speaker 1: So I think, well, Moynihan Station, there is a gorgeous, beautiful new facility. The station itself, Penn Station is technically or literally under underground under MSG right, but that part of it, it's all connected there. I thought it was doing pretty well, but there is some up to eight billion dollar project that is essentially underway. The Department Transportation is in charge of it. So that is what it's supposed to get, a huge facelift, Robes and as a part of it, they want his name to be well, excuse me, they want to change the name.
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Speaker 3: They just want to change the name.
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Speaker 1: But there's a reason we think what the name might be. This is kind of silly. Did we need to be told this? But Sean Duffy was asked about this previously, Robes, this wasn't even that KOI. When he was asked whether or not it should change to Trump, his response was sounds good to me.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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Speaker 1: Carolyn Levitt same thing. She gets a question about it, and her response was just why not. They're setting us.
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Speaker 3: Up right, Yeah, why not name it Trump Station?
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's the president while this big rehab is happening, He's the reason why it's getting a facelift.
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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't we name it after President Trump?
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Speaker 1: But make no mistake, it wasn't him that made the suggestion, and he told us this back in February. So, like you said at the top here, they've been dancing around this for a while. But this has been talked about for a bit the idea that they would changed the name to Trump Station. He had this to say, or would you have it there in front of the idea? Is his truth? Social Post. This was back in February. This is what he said.
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Speaker 3: He said, Also, the naming of Penn Station, I love Pennsylvania, but it is a direct competitor to New York and eating New York's lunch. To Trump Station was brought up by certain politicians and construction union heads, not me. It is just more fake news.
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Speaker 2: So he's saying, I'm not the one who's asking for it to be renamed to Trump Station. That's politicians and construction union heads.
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Speaker 1: Yes. And the reason he got on and was defending himself robes at the time because there was a report that President Trump had told Chuck Schumer that he would agree to free up billions of dollars for an infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename Penn Station and Dulles Airport after him. That was the report in February.
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Speaker 3: And he's denying that obviously.
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Speaker 1: Well, the president was trying to deny the No, no, no, it wasn't me, It wasn't me. Chuck Schumer in response to that report after a reporter suggested that this was Chuck Schumer who actually made the suggestion. Chuck Schumer wrote at the time in February, absolute lie. He knows it. Everyone knows it. Now Chuck Schumer is still talking, has some pretty strong words to this most recent report the arobes this is is this? I don't know. Is it worse than It's not worse than the Kennedy Center.
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Speaker 2: It's not worse than the Kennedy Center because the Kennedy Center was a memorial to John F. Kennedy Junior, who literally gave his life in service of this country. So that is almost like writing your name on someone else's graves. So I don't think it can get worse than that. But this is probably second on the list. It's right under the Kennedy Center. Just it's an affront, I think to a lot of people in New York. Look, Trump's name is on so many buildings in this city already. Why why does he need his name on another building?
00:10:20
Speaker 1: Why is this important to him? Why is this important to him? And why is it important for the people around him that they have marching orders? Why would you feel good about going around and branding the country and some of the most iconic important things we have putting his name on it for what his ego.
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Speaker 2: There's no other reason why, nothing else short of that this.
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Speaker 1: Is It's confusing, baby, that this is so important to someone who is already as important as he is.
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Speaker 3: I don't get it either.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Truck Schumber followed up with both, this most recent one saying Penn Station needs to be rebuilt for the millions of commuters who use it, not rebranded to satisfy Frump's bottomless ego. Secretary Duffy should stop scheming to flatter the president. Wow, that's about right.
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Speaker 3: That's about right.
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Speaker 1: Penn Station. I did not know this. I had to go back and make sense now. But the name. Do most people even realize where this came from? I guess it makes sense, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I guess it does, seeing how it services trains. It was named after the Pennsylvania Rail Company. That just reminds me of monopoly. Actually, it's funny.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Isn't there something a monopoly that's the Pennsylvania Rail Company?
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Speaker 1: Or was it? Maybe I wasn't a monopoly fan. I didn't have the patience for it. Does that makes sense?
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Speaker 3: It does.
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Speaker 2: But yes, I don't know why. I just immediately thought of monopoly when I saw that. But yeah, Pennsylvania Rail Company. It's not about Pennsylvania the state. It's about the company.
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Speaker 3: And it opened in nineteen ten. This has been its name for more than a century.
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Speaker 2: This is what we have referred to the station, as as have our ancestors.
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Speaker 1: No more the Trump Station, next stop Trump Station. It was the station that's there. It did have it was taken down. It actually was demolished in nineteen sixty three. They say there aren't as many riders anymore. Riders. Ship got went down, so they took it down. But also MSG got plopped on top of it. So if you're not you're not familiar, folks. When you see Madison Square Garden on television, you saw it during the finals. Underneath that are thousands, hundreds of thousands of people are underneath that thing every single day. That's where penn Station essentially is. Stay here. I will give you a reminder. You probably would come up with most of these, and some of them. I actually forgot a list of all the other things the president has put his name on.
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Speaker 3: Stay here, Welcome back everyone.
00:13:04
Speaker 2: We are talking about a potential major concerning change to an iconic New York City landmark Penn Station might be soon called Trump Station. That is, at least what it appears the White House and the Trump administration is asking Congress to do. Among a list of other things itemized and a budget request, they just sneaked in there a little hey, can you guys just go ahead and approve a name change? Didn't specify what that name change might be, but given recent articles and yes, just well, it's pretty easy to deduce what that name change might actually become. Trump Station.
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Speaker 1: All right, So this is I don't know how far off this is. I don't know how much. I mean, they tried to fight him putting his name in front of Kennedy's and that didn't work. So I'm not sure how much that tarp.
00:14:03
Speaker 3: Still up, right. I haven't heard about it coming down.
00:14:06
Speaker 1: We were so there was supposed to be an answer to it.
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Speaker 3: We follow up on that.
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Speaker 1: Jeez. I don't know if the judge gave a timeline for you need to explain it or take it down by a certain day. I think we're there. We'll take a look. But other things he has put his name on, it's not supposed to be on the Kennedy Center anymore. But these are some of the big ones. One of them I actually forgot about the Kennedy Center. Of course, we know the commemorative coins. We just saw that recently, didn't we. Yes, we are find out are they doing the two hundred and fifty dollars.
00:14:32
Speaker 2: Billis it's still stuck in Congress right now, but there is an active bill right now where they are trying to put President Trump's face on a two hundred and fifty dollars bill in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country. That's exactly how they've pulled off this commemorative one dollar coin. Because just a reminder, it is against federal law to have a living a current president on currency here in the United States of America.
00:15:00
Speaker 1: That we even had to have that law in the first place. Lets you know, ropes how important or how smart somebody was at some point to think we need to do this to make sure this is in place in case.
00:15:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a slippery slope, and who knew that, Wow, it would actually well, they found a way to sidestep it, though, didn't they.
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Speaker 1: Goodness, Also, the communic Can, the passports coming out of DC, the limited edition, he has his face on some of those. The one I forgot about. The battleships. He announced a whole new class of battleships called the Trump Class. I forgot about that one. We got the gold cards or those those are the ones you can get.
00:15:36
Speaker 3: There were credit cards, credit cards, Trump gold cards.
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Speaker 2: There's Trump RX, which is how you can get prescription drugs online now at the cheapest prices you'll ever find in the world. Trump accounts, of course, that's those one thousand dollars accounts given to children when they're born. And then the National Park passes with his face on it, which you know. Of course, all of this. He actually was able to tie most of this signage or the depiction of him to the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. He justified a lot of this, all going back to this celebratory year we're having here in this country.
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Speaker 1: Finally, Robes will leave with the words of Nadler. He's retired. No, did he lose He's retiring, Yes, Nadler. He's the longest serving member of the New York delegation, but represents very important section of Manhattan yes, so this Penn Station falls I would guess within his district, but he wrote this on X quote. I have repeatedly warned that the Trump administration is weaponizing the Transportation Reauthorization money to strip control of Penn Station away from local authorities at New Yorker's expense. Now, after months of hiding from the public, Sean Duffy has confirmed that the Trump administration is waging a hostile takeover of Penn Station, including delivering Trump his dream of renaming Penn Station after himself. You alluded to this earlier Roges. Why you said they've been dancing around it, Natler himself said, after months of hiding from the public. Now they're just saying it out loud.
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Speaker 2: Right, but not quite because they aren't actually specifying the name change. They're just asking for permission to change the name. And so this is in three Senate committees, as we pointed out, so they'll have to vote on this. And look, this is another reason why these midterm elections are so important. Not sure when that might come up, but obviously it is a very thin, razor thin balance right now in favor of Republicans in the Senate, and so these midterm elections are everything in terms of President Trump being able to get certain very important matters on his agenda past and securing his legacy. I mean, I think that's where he is right now, as he will be heading into his final two years in office, if he doesn't try to find a way to seek a third term.
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Speaker 3: He stopped talking about that, hasn't he.
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Speaker 1: I think?
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Speaker 2: So? Okay, he is eighty Yeah, he'll be eighty two at the end of his presidency.
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Speaker 1: We should talk about that another time.
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Speaker 3: That's another episode.
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Speaker 1: It is about age, about age and serving in office. Well, folks, you want to update you Your next stop could be at New York's Trump Station. Oh, but with that, we always appreciate you spending some time with us. I'm tj a's robot. We'll talk to y'll soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. It is Friday, July twenty fourth. Next stop, New York's Trump Station. Yes, there is a Trump station possibly coming to New York. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Let's be clear here, no, no, no, no, no, Robes. We wouldn't just be talking about this if they were building some brand new, state of the art train station in New York that's gonna bear his name. Ah, they want to put his name on, Robes one of the most iconic, one of the most famous landmarks we have in all of New York.
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Speaker 2: That's right, Bye bye Penn Station, Hello Trump Station. Look, they've been dancing around this for months now, and finally it's in writing.
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Speaker 3: Kinda.
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Speaker 2: They have officially asked for a name change, but they have not said yet officially what that name would be changed too.
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Speaker 1: Being cute, here are we.
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Speaker 2: Really going to Okay, obviously, they are talking about renaming this iconic, storied train station to honor President Trump, who is going to be refurbishing the place, so therefore he should have his name on the building. That's exactly the same argument, or the same line of reasoning that was used for the Kennedy Center. You all.
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Speaker 1: This one's a mess. It's not just the idea. There's some backstory here. It's not just rope. The idea of taking like something that iconic who's had that's had a name since nineteen ten, by the way, to take that off and just put his name up on it. Rose. There's some behind the scenes, some dealing, some trading, some blackmailing, even withholding the accusations holding withholding money unless he gets his way. It's really he's being described, at least the behavior is being described as a petulant, spoiled child. I am not going to share. I am not going to get unless I get my way. I am not going to release billions of dollars for funding in New York Robes. That is the accusation against the president right now.
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Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's surprised by it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you would. I'm sorry. I was expecting more from you on that.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, you can't see her.
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Speaker 1: She's looking at my face like you got more or we're moving on to the next thing. That's that's all you got, Yes, Robes, that's what we talk. But it's coming up now, because like you said, it's now in writing they've been dancing around, and we'll get to the delicate dance they've been doing. But ropes. An official letter was sent by the Transportation Secretary to the heads of several committees at the Senate, and they put it in writing.
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Speaker 3: They absolutely did.
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Speaker 2: They put this yes to three Senate committees, and Sean Duffy, headed the Transportation Department, said, I am pleased to submit these proposals for surface Transportation reauthorization to advance the President's vision for a bold transportation future.
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Speaker 1: So yes, this is him saying, these are our priorities, this is what we'd like, this is what we want to do with this money that we're requesting. So a section in their robes is titled additional Administration Priorities, And this is where we're going to read it all to you, because you have to wait to the end to see how it was kind of sneaked in. It didn't seem to go along with the other things they listed, and so that's why I thought it was important to give the actual text.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so here is the letter.
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Speaker 2: We have a unique opportunity, through reauthorization efforts to address key initiatives, particularly those related to transforming new York Penn Station. Transform New York Penn Station. It will be rebuilt into a brand new, world class station. To transform the station, we urge Congress to first authorize an additional one billion in Federal State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program funding for New York Pen's design and construction. They also want to incorporate the McDowell Amendment to insert a new section into Title forty nine to permit Amtrak to enter into agreements requiring payments in lieu of taxes.
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Speaker 3: Okay, number three.
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Speaker 2: They want to increase the railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement financing cap from thirty five billion to fifty billion. And also they would like to direct Ambtract to rename New York Penn Station.
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Speaker 1: All that money and technical stuff in this program and that they list all these things and direct Abtract to rename the station. That's all it said. Ropes, but it's in there. That's all it said. In a list of things that are an administration priority for how to move Pen Station forward. They need to change the name. Do you see any reason? Why does anything make sense? Like it's not identifiable, it's in New York, Why should it have a Pennsylvania another state name? Does any logic? Can you give me any reason you would go? Okay, I could see if they.
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Speaker 2: Want to change it, you're saying to anything other than Trump, Like, why would want to change pen Station's name?
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Speaker 1: We are New Yorkers. Is there anything someone could say to us, not about his name, but just wanting to change it to whatever the sponsorship? Could you get behind somebody giving you a legitimate reason to change it at all? To anything?
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Speaker 2: No, I can't think of a legitimate reason. Why would you need to change it? It's like, why would you change the name of the Empire State Building or a Grand Central Terminal or penn Station. These are just iconic parts of this city that we know and love and have referred to for decades upon decades.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 2: And look, there are already illustrations for plans for the redesign of the station, and they're already If you look at the plans and the illustrations, there is a large engraving on an interior wall that would be on the main concourse that has Trump's name on it.
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Speaker 3: So they're already planning.
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Speaker 2: They've already submitted some interior designs where his name is going to be on this huge wall.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that good enough? Fine, there's a plaque, it'll be there forever.
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Speaker 3: Great. I think that's fine.
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Speaker 2: If he if he facilitated the funding and he urged pushed forward the redesign effort to overhaul this iconic and yes, it does need a facelift, and I think everyone who's been in that station can fully agree, and we welcome a beautification of a station that is used by millions every day.
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Speaker 1: I got I'm confused, and I'm not confused. But because Moynihan across the street there opened four or five years ago, and it's gorgeous. The thing right across the street from Madison Square Garden, they're on eighth Is I have that right? Seventh or eighth.
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Speaker 2: I think it's goes down the Grand The new Grand entrance would be on eighth Avenue.
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Speaker 1: So I think, well, Moynihan Station, there is a gorgeous, beautiful new facility. The station itself, Penn Station is technically or literally under underground under MSG right, but that part of it, it's all connected there. I thought it was doing pretty well, but there is some up to eight billion dollar project that is essentially underway. The Department Transportation is in charge of it. So that is what it's supposed to get, a huge facelift, Robes and as a part of it, they want his name to be well, excuse me, they want to change the name.
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Speaker 3: They just want to change the name.
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Speaker 1: But there's a reason we think what the name might be. This is kind of silly. Did we need to be told this? But Sean Duffy was asked about this previously, Robes, this wasn't even that KOI. When he was asked whether or not it should change to Trump, his response was sounds good to me.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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Speaker 1: Carolyn Levitt same thing. She gets a question about it, and her response was just why not. They're setting us.
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Speaker 3: Up right, Yeah, why not name it Trump Station?
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's the president while this big rehab is happening, He's the reason why it's getting a facelift.
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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't we name it after President Trump?
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Speaker 1: But make no mistake, it wasn't him that made the suggestion, and he told us this back in February. So, like you said at the top here, they've been dancing around this for a while. But this has been talked about for a bit the idea that they would changed the name to Trump Station. He had this to say, or would you have it there in front of the idea? Is his truth? Social Post. This was back in February. This is what he said.
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Speaker 3: He said, Also, the naming of Penn Station, I love Pennsylvania, but it is a direct competitor to New York and eating New York's lunch. To Trump Station was brought up by certain politicians and construction union heads, not me. It is just more fake news.
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Speaker 2: So he's saying, I'm not the one who's asking for it to be renamed to Trump Station. That's politicians and construction union heads.
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Speaker 1: Yes. And the reason he got on and was defending himself robes at the time because there was a report that President Trump had told Chuck Schumer that he would agree to free up billions of dollars for an infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename Penn Station and Dulles Airport after him. That was the report in February.
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Speaker 3: And he's denying that obviously.
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Speaker 1: Well, the president was trying to deny the No, no, no, it wasn't me, It wasn't me. Chuck Schumer in response to that report after a reporter suggested that this was Chuck Schumer who actually made the suggestion. Chuck Schumer wrote at the time in February, absolute lie. He knows it. Everyone knows it. Now Chuck Schumer is still talking, has some pretty strong words to this most recent report the arobes this is is this? I don't know. Is it worse than It's not worse than the Kennedy Center.
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Speaker 2: It's not worse than the Kennedy Center because the Kennedy Center was a memorial to John F. Kennedy Junior, who literally gave his life in service of this country. So that is almost like writing your name on someone else's graves. So I don't think it can get worse than that. But this is probably second on the list. It's right under the Kennedy Center. Just it's an affront, I think to a lot of people in New York. Look, Trump's name is on so many buildings in this city already. Why why does he need his name on another building?
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Speaker 1: Why is this important to him? Why is this important to him? And why is it important for the people around him that they have marching orders? Why would you feel good about going around and branding the country and some of the most iconic important things we have putting his name on it for what his ego.
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Speaker 2: There's no other reason why, nothing else short of that this.
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Speaker 1: Is It's confusing, baby, that this is so important to someone who is already as important as he is.
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Speaker 3: I don't get it either.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Truck Schumber followed up with both, this most recent one saying Penn Station needs to be rebuilt for the millions of commuters who use it, not rebranded to satisfy Frump's bottomless ego. Secretary Duffy should stop scheming to flatter the president. Wow, that's about right.
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Speaker 3: That's about right.
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Speaker 1: Penn Station. I did not know this. I had to go back and make sense now. But the name. Do most people even realize where this came from? I guess it makes sense, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I guess it does, seeing how it services trains. It was named after the Pennsylvania Rail Company. That just reminds me of monopoly. Actually, it's funny.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Isn't there something a monopoly that's the Pennsylvania Rail Company?
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Speaker 1: Or was it? Maybe I wasn't a monopoly fan. I didn't have the patience for it. Does that makes sense?
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Speaker 3: It does.
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Speaker 2: But yes, I don't know why. I just immediately thought of monopoly when I saw that. But yeah, Pennsylvania Rail Company. It's not about Pennsylvania the state. It's about the company.
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Speaker 3: And it opened in nineteen ten. This has been its name for more than a century.
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Speaker 2: This is what we have referred to the station, as as have our ancestors.
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Speaker 1: No more the Trump Station, next stop Trump Station. It was the station that's there. It did have it was taken down. It actually was demolished in nineteen sixty three. They say there aren't as many riders anymore. Riders. Ship got went down, so they took it down. But also MSG got plopped on top of it. So if you're not you're not familiar, folks. When you see Madison Square Garden on television, you saw it during the finals. Underneath that are thousands, hundreds of thousands of people are underneath that thing every single day. That's where penn Station essentially is. Stay here. I will give you a reminder. You probably would come up with most of these, and some of them. I actually forgot a list of all the other things the president has put his name on.
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Speaker 3: Stay here, Welcome back everyone.
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Speaker 2: We are talking about a potential major concerning change to an iconic New York City landmark Penn Station might be soon called Trump Station. That is, at least what it appears the White House and the Trump administration is asking Congress to do. Among a list of other things itemized and a budget request, they just sneaked in there a little hey, can you guys just go ahead and approve a name change? Didn't specify what that name change might be, but given recent articles and yes, just well, it's pretty easy to deduce what that name change might actually become. Trump Station.
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Speaker 1: All right, So this is I don't know how far off this is. I don't know how much. I mean, they tried to fight him putting his name in front of Kennedy's and that didn't work. So I'm not sure how much that tarp.
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Speaker 3: Still up, right. I haven't heard about it coming down.
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Speaker 1: We were so there was supposed to be an answer to it.
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Speaker 3: We follow up on that.
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Speaker 1: Jeez. I don't know if the judge gave a timeline for you need to explain it or take it down by a certain day. I think we're there. We'll take a look. But other things he has put his name on, it's not supposed to be on the Kennedy Center anymore. But these are some of the big ones. One of them I actually forgot about the Kennedy Center. Of course, we know the commemorative coins. We just saw that recently, didn't we. Yes, we are find out are they doing the two hundred and fifty dollars.
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Speaker 2: Billis it's still stuck in Congress right now, but there is an active bill right now where they are trying to put President Trump's face on a two hundred and fifty dollars bill in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country. That's exactly how they've pulled off this commemorative one dollar coin. Because just a reminder, it is against federal law to have a living a current president on currency here in the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: That we even had to have that law in the first place. Lets you know, ropes how important or how smart somebody was at some point to think we need to do this to make sure this is in place in case.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a slippery slope, and who knew that, Wow, it would actually well, they found a way to sidestep it, though, didn't they.
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Speaker 1: Goodness, Also, the communic Can, the passports coming out of DC, the limited edition, he has his face on some of those. The one I forgot about. The battleships. He announced a whole new class of battleships called the Trump Class. I forgot about that one. We got the gold cards or those those are the ones you can get.
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Speaker 3: There were credit cards, credit cards, Trump gold cards.
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Speaker 2: There's Trump RX, which is how you can get prescription drugs online now at the cheapest prices you'll ever find in the world. Trump accounts, of course, that's those one thousand dollars accounts given to children when they're born. And then the National Park passes with his face on it, which you know. Of course, all of this. He actually was able to tie most of this signage or the depiction of him to the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. He justified a lot of this, all going back to this celebratory year we're having here in this country.
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Speaker 1: Finally, Robes will leave with the words of Nadler. He's retired. No, did he lose He's retiring, Yes, Nadler. He's the longest serving member of the New York delegation, but represents very important section of Manhattan yes, so this Penn Station falls I would guess within his district, but he wrote this on X quote. I have repeatedly warned that the Trump administration is weaponizing the Transportation Reauthorization money to strip control of Penn Station away from local authorities at New Yorker's expense. Now, after months of hiding from the public, Sean Duffy has confirmed that the Trump administration is waging a hostile takeover of Penn Station, including delivering Trump his dream of renaming Penn Station after himself. You alluded to this earlier Roges. Why you said they've been dancing around it, Natler himself said, after months of hiding from the public. Now they're just saying it out loud.
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Speaker 2: Right, but not quite because they aren't actually specifying the name change. They're just asking for permission to change the name. And so this is in three Senate committees, as we pointed out, so they'll have to vote on this. And look, this is another reason why these midterm elections are so important. Not sure when that might come up, but obviously it is a very thin, razor thin balance right now in favor of Republicans in the Senate, and so these midterm elections are everything in terms of President Trump being able to get certain very important matters on his agenda past and securing his legacy. I mean, I think that's where he is right now, as he will be heading into his final two years in office, if he doesn't try to find a way to seek a third term.
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Speaker 3: He stopped talking about that, hasn't he.
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Speaker 1: I think?
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Speaker 2: So? Okay, he is eighty Yeah, he'll be eighty two at the end of his presidency.
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Speaker 1: We should talk about that another time.
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Speaker 3: That's another episode.
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Speaker 1: It is about age, about age and serving in office. Well, folks, you want to update you Your next stop could be at New York's Trump Station. Oh, but with that, we always appreciate you spending some time with us. I'm tj a's robot. We'll talk to y'll soon.