The Trump administration is sticking by its deadline for New York to end congestion pricing — despite an agreement with the MTA to apparently keep the toll cameras on until the fall.
A US Department of Transportation spokesperson, in a post on an X account, lambasted reports that the feds and MTA officials agreed to keep the $9 tolls at least temporarily in place.
“This is a complete lie by the elitist New York liberal media, whose rich buddies love the idea of pricing poor people out of the city,” the post reads.
“The truth is simple agreements on judicial timelines have no bearing on the underlying merits of our case or our position.”
The statement came after court papers made public Monday laid out a deal that would prevent a judge from making a decision on the case until the middle of summer, perhaps even until October.
DOT officials told the MTA they did not plan “at present” on seeking an injunction to stop the program, the papers showed.
The DOT’s post echoed the combative tone struck by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who set the April 20 deadline in a post that accused Gov. Kathy Hochul of disrespect and threatened to cut off federal funding to the MTA.
“USDOT’s deadline for stopping toll collection has not changed,” it said. “Make no mistake – the Trump Administration and USDOT will not hesitate to use every tool at our disposal in response to non-compliance later this month.”
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