The New York governor Kathy Hochul has in the case after the Federal Officials had instructed the program during an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump for Manhattan’s Stau -Maut building, said a spokesman for the democratic governor.
Hochul and Trump met more than an hour on Friday afternoon and also discussed other topics, including immigration, infrastructure, economic development, energy, offshore wind and nuclear power, said press spokesman Avi Small. He said Hochul presented Trump a brochure that shows the early success of the traffic jam prices.
Small declined to continue commenting on the conversation. The White House did not immediately respond to an e -mail that was looking for a comment on Saturday.
The Trump administration ordered a stopover on Wednesday, which was launched on January 5 with the goals of thinning the traffic and the financing of the mass strant by the fact that most vehicles that are core of Manhattan south of the Penetrated Central Park, imposed 9 US dollars. Transit officials said the toll had brought modest but measurable traffic reductions.
Despite the federal regulations, the toll fees remain for the time being, since the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state authority, which is headed in New York City, was submitted to maintain it on life. Hochul said the toll will continue while the lawsuit is pending.
The Republican President, whose namesake Trump Tower Penthouse and other properties are in the overload zone, explained the victory after the announcement on Wednesday.
“The congestion prices are dead. Manhattan and all of New York are saved. “Trump said on his website for social networks and added:” Long live the king! ” The White House later published a picture of Trump, who was wearing a crown in front of the New York skyline.
Hochul shot back immediately.
“New York has not worked under a king for over 250 years,” she said at a press conference in the Grand Central Terminal, one of the city’s tensile nodes. “We will certainly not start now.”
The US Transport Minister Sean P. Duffy announced that the federal government imposed its consent of the program and described the “Americans of the working class and small business owner on the face” of the toll fees.
The overload fee was split in New York, with most oppositions from suburban commuters or from those who live in areas not lived from the subway system. Proponents say that it is an creative way to accelerate traffic and reduce air pollution.
The New York officials and the Trump administration also contradicted other topics.
Hochul has criticized the administration and the Ministry of Justice for trying to drop a suspected corruption case against the New York Mayor Eric Adams.
The US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this month a lawsuit against Hochul and the State General Prosecutor of the State because of a law that enables people who may not be in the United States in the United States, and says that in view of the immigration efforts of the immigration authorities Federation flies.
This month too, Trump -Adjutant Elon Musk beat the federal payments to reimburse New York City for hotel costs for migrants, which led to a suspension of the payments and the discharge of four federal employees. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has withdrawn more than 80 million US dollars from the city due to migrant accommodation, which led to a lawsuit.
In the meantime, Attorney General Letitia James and her democratic colleagues in other states have the Trump administration due to topics, including the ministry of the Musk’s government, to federal payment systems, the sensitive personal data of the Americans and the attempt to administration, federal financing contains, sues.
