US court rejects Trump bid to reverse New York tunnel funding ruling

March 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration bid to reverse an order that requires it to make payments to the authority overseeing the $16 billion New York Hudson Tunnel.

A three-judge panel of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said if the lower-court temporary restraining order was overturned pending an appeal the U.S. Transportation Department would be free to suspend future payments and "tunnel construction sites will become inactive, posing serious risk of injury and deterioration that the states, at considerable expense, will become responsible to safeguard against."