The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority insists that it won’t give in to Virginia officials who are threatening to cut funding for the $6 billion Dulles Metro rail project unless the authority drops its plans to use union labor.

Several authority leaders told The Washington Examiner that they have no intention of giving in to Virginia’s demands. If the state withholds its $150 million in retaliation for the authority’s preference for union labor, as officials threatened, the authority will simply pass the cost on to drivers on the Dulles Toll Road, another funding source for the project.