President Joe Biden will announce nearly $300 million in funding for work on a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

The White House billed the Baltimore speech by President Joe Biden as a “kickoff event” for a project to replace a 4-mile section of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor.

New day, new tunnel. President Joe Biden is ready to showcase a $292 million mega grant that will be used to help build a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, part

President Joe Biden traveled to Baltimore Monday to visit a 150-year-old train tunnel - a major chokepoint between Washington and New York - that's slated to be replaced with help from the bipartisan infrastructure legislation he signed in 2021.

Ulysses S. Grant was still president when travelers sped through the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, connecting Philadelphia and Washington by rail for the first time. A century and a half later, the tunnel that runs under Baltimore residential neighborhoods is more of a chokepoint than a lifeline.