“President Trump has made it clear: the days of reckless spending and blank checks are over,” Mr. Duffy said in a news release. In a statement, Gov. Kathy Hochul described the Trump administration’s decision as a boon for the state and indicated that she would withdraw more than $1 billion of funding from the project.
Akshully……
There’s a concept of an idea of who would pay for it
That’s just the funding part. There’s so many more components to renovation like design and construction, and without utilizing Amtrak there’s absolutely no legal avenue for them to take over the renovation of “private” property of Amtrak’s. The article even mentions a draft executive order detailing a design.