Hanabusa and Shatz are "Cautiously Optimistic" the federal agency would approve it!  Geeeeeeeee, I wonder why?These two hypocrites,notably Brian Schatz were in constant attack mode  attacking this president for every little thing like the Charlottsville protesters,relating them as Trump's White supremacist .Oh,btw KHON2 news/Howard Dashshefski News did the same two night ago,filling in for Joe Moore's world news.

This is a hard lesson,"watch the words that are coming out of your mouth".

Now when they face this 3 Billion dollar shortfall, because chances are slim to NONE that Trump will give a red cent? "Pursuade" the FTA? And who runs the FTA? Yep? I don't think so. So,who's the Idiot now?
Remember Pres. Trump is a Builder, with a budget and schedule time lines. This is one of the reasons, Schatz and Hunabusa will not ask Trump,they knows they burned that bridge down and burnt it  good. What's the ONLY option left? The tax payers of Hawaii. Good going Hawaii!  IMUA