The Second Avenue Subway’s East Harlem extension project will keep chugging away despite the Trump administration’s pause on federal funding for the project — but MTA officials warned they will soon need the money restored in order to award the next contract in the undertaking. “This project is moving forward,” Lieber told the MTA board. However, MTA Construction and Development head Jamie Torres-Springer said that while work will continue on the Second Avenue Subway, the project will hit roadblocks in the near future if the federal funding remains frozen. The Trump administration froze $6 billion in Second Avenue Subway funding at the start of the last government shutdown in October. “There’s no reason for the Second Avenue Subway funding to be stopped…Why would you want to create delays and additional costs and schedule problems by slowing it down?”