be paying a staggering 70% of the cost of the tunnel and new jersey just couldn't afford it. none of that was true. general accountability office later did a report on this issue. they found the estimates of the cost of the tunnel hadn't changed at all in the two years before governor christie announced he was killing it. governor christie said new jersey was paying 70% of the cost of the project. actually try 14.4%. chris christie sold this whole public line about why new jersey couldn't do the tunnel. remember, $600 million had already been spent starting to build it, but the case he made for what was wrong with the project was not a true case. and then he kept the money. seriously. not only did he resist paying back any of new jersey's share of the money that had already been spent, he kept billions of dollars that had been earmarked for the tunnel and didn't spend them on the tunnel. he took them for new jersey to