Back on topic, there is a proposal to force the Federal Government to make emergency plans should the tunnels close https://www.amny.com/transit/trump-budg ... 1.28393510. In the house it has one Democratic and one Republican congressmen behind it, so it might get a vote eventually, but I see no chance it hell that it will get a vote in the Senate unless it gets attached to a must pass legislation, basically one of the budget resolutions.
As the federal government made its case, Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island) joined Josh Gottheimer, his colleague from across the aisle and river, at Penn Station. They took to the Amtrak concourse to announce new legislation Monday that would require the federal government to draft an alternative service plan should a Gateway tunnel be forced out of service for repairs.