Good morning. it’s Thursday. Today we will see the move of the Trump administration to end congestion pricing in Manhattan. We will also receive details on a hearing on the administration’s effort to give up criminal allegations against Mayor Eric Adams.
President Trump said last week that he had a plan to force New York to “kill” the crowd pricing program.
But the death of the old program of seven-week, if its death falls on everyone, will probably slow down-and, for New York officials who were counting on revenue from the pricing of the crowd, painful.
Transport Secretary, Sean Dafi, in a letter to Gov Kathy Hosul, told that the Trump administration planned to cancel the federal approval of the tolling program, which was provided by the Biden administration two weeks after the November election. Dafi said that the federal officials would contact the state to “discuss the systematic termination of toll operations”.
The discussion will probably begin in court. The State Agency in charge of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Conjust Pricing Program, immediately filed a challenge in the federal court in Manhattan. The chairman of the agency and Chief Executive Officer, Janno Liber said that the toll collection would continue.
Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that New York was “saved” as a result of action. “Convention pricing is dead. Manhattan, and all of New York, have survived, ”he wrote. “Long -time king lives!”
Hocul, in a statement, stated that the benefits of the pricing of the crowd were already clear, the counter was counted, “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king.” He said, “We will see you in court.”
Convention pricing started on 5 January. Most drivers are charged $ 9 for entering Manhattan below 60th Street.
This was the intention to raise $ 15 billion for MTA, which would fund major projects such as upgrading the aging signal system and expanding the other Avenue Metro into the East Harlem. If the congestion pricing ends, the state will be another way to raise $ 1 billion per year to pay for the MTA’s capital plan. By finishing this, it will also leave the state to resume half a billion dollars, which was spent in the preparation for the program.
But Trump has said that tolls were keeping visitors and businesses out of Manhattan. And Dafi, resonating the arguments made in his letter to Hochar, said in a statement that the congestion pricing was “a slap for the working class Americans and the owners of the small business” We do. He also complained in the letter that revenue from drivers should not be spent on maintaining large -scale transit, “Unlike highways.”
“I don’t believe this is a proper deal,” he said.
Supporters of congestion pricing raised the issue with the administration’s move to stop it immediately. Julie Tighe, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said, “The Trump administration is selecting the gridlock on the people, when we need to participate in the federal government to resolve the crowd, not a roadbalk.” “I live in the zone, I work in the zone and I own a car in the zone. There is undeniably low traffic. This is what is worthy of New York – cleaner air and low traffic and gridlock, which waste time and money, and better transit. ,
Catherine Wing, Chairman and Chief Executive of Partnership for New York City, an influential consortium of Corporations and Business Leaders, said Catherine Wing said that withdrawing the federal approval of congested pricing was “a terrible mistake”. And representative Dan Goldman, a Democrat, which includes a stretch of lower manhattan and Brooklyn in the district, is called “as hypocritical as hypocritical,”.
Goldman said, “To claim that the law does not allow for the program, while simultaneously ignores every law that examines his right.” “Many courts have upheld the validity of congestion pricing.”
The congestion pricing was unpopular, but the supporters pointed to the indications that the protest had softened. WYLDE cited a Morning Consult Poll, which found that 66 percent of the drivers who are paying it support congestion pricing and that 59 percent of the voters wanted the statewide to allow Trump to continue it.
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The Justice Department Officer said Trump helped criminal allegations.
The hearing with the judge ended that “it is not in anyone’s interest that it is not in anyone’s interest to pull it out.”
If it seemed that the judge, Dale Ho, was about to rule the proposal of the Department of Justice to give up allegations of corruption against Mayor Eric Adams, Ho immediately made it clear that he was not. “I am not going to shoot from the hip here on the bench,” he said.
Earlier, the acting number 2 official of the Department of Justice had suggested that the Trump administration was justified in keeping the political support of a public officer on the suspicion of the prosecutors that the officer could have broken the law. In response to questions from the Department of Justice, Emil Bowe III, he renewed his claim that the case against Adams should be dismissed as it was limiting Edam’s cooperation with Trump’s crack on immigration.
The presence of Bowe in such a hearing was unusual. The absentee Manhattan’s assistant was American advocate, who first oversee the investigation and prosecution of the Mayor Adams in the history of the modern New York City, who was facing criminal allegations while living in the office.
Last week, Bowe directed the prosecutors to proceed to abolish the case to resign prosecutors in Manhattan and to prosecute the Department of Justice in Washington. Bowe stated that his order to pull the plug on the case was “a standard practice of prosecution’s discretion,” saying that the prosecution “affects the national security and immigration objectives” by President Trump.
The interim American Attorney in Manhattan, Daniel Sasoon, said last week, one of the prosecutors leaving Daniel Sasoon that the lawyers of Adams “what had done for a Kwid Pro Quo repeatedly during a meeting with Bow in Washington”. He said that the lawyers of the mayor had indicated that the Adams Trump would help the administration with immigration enforcement if the matter was thrown out.
During the hearing, Bov pushed back against that idea. At one point, Adams was asked whether he was promised anything to motivate him to go with a proposal to dismiss his case. He said, no. As my colleague Jinah e. “It is yet to be seen whether the judges will agree,” Bromvich said. And after the hearing, Bowe issued a blistering statement inviting other justice department officials to resign, if he disagreed with his efforts to dismiss the allegations against Adams.
Dear Diary:
My friend of 72 years and I stayed in a bodega on Broadway and 107th Street to buy lottery tickets. We do not play until the payment is astronomical.
This special Saturday evening was 9 o’clock, and we thought we were the only customers in the place. We asked the owner when the drawing would be announced.
Midnight, he said.
My friends and I agreed that we would sleep by then and would have to learn the result the next day.
At that moment, a man wore a completely black clothes, which we did not see in the back corner.
He said, “No one promises you tomorrow,” he said without seeing the horticulture from the horticulture he was studying.
Both my friends and me, 79, were all very familiar with this knowledge. We exchanged to know the glimpse with the owner of Bodega and politely thanked Black in Black for his advice. He ignored us.
We went to our friend’s apartment, where we tried, and failed, to stay until midnight.
We learned in the morning that we did not win the lottery unfortunately. On the other hand, we had yesterday.
– Michael Vyne
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