President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s steep congestion toll in New York City “is DEAD.”
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy wrote a letter to Hochul on Wednesday, informing the governor that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration is terminating approval for the congestion pricing plan, the New York Post reported. The Department of Transportation initially approved the pilot program in November.
“New York State’s congestion pricing plan is a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners,” Duffy wrote, adding that the plan is “backwards and unfair.”
In a post on Truth Social, Trump added, “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”
The toll, which went into effect in January, charges drivers of passenger…
