WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statement on a Punchbowl report (https://x.com/bresreports/status/2019544251122569636?s=20) that the president of the United States will release federal funds that he is withholding for the Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project in exchange for the renaming of Washington Dulles International Airport and Penn Station in New York after himself. Yes, really:

"No. This is ridiculous. These naming rights aren't tradable as part of any negotiations, and neither is the dignity of New Yorkers. At a time when New Yorkers are already being crushed by high cost...