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Oh yes, it’s going to the courts. And I believe we will be victorious in the courts, and this program will continue.”
When asked if she thought the program's fate would ultimately be decided in court, Hochul said With all due respect to the state of New Jersey, they do not tell us in New York what to do, nor does Washington when it comes to policies that we believe are going to reduce congestion,
I’m going to be very cognizant, I need to keep an eye on this situation, especially the way the Trump administration has telegraphed that they want to get into our operations. And I have to be the firewall to stop that,
I piss off half of everybody no matter what I do,
she said of her decision on Adams You can’t strangle the lifeblood of our city, because I’m going to make you guys own this. When the trains are late if this goes down, a signal doesn’t work, stations flooded and not fixed for weeks and shut down, I’m pointing it back at you,
Hochul said her message to Trump was This is about money — the $15 billion into public transit the plan is supposed to generate with tolls — and this is about the way she’s warning to try to turn the tide against the president
Just before heading to the White House, the Democratic governor laid out in an interview with CNN how she had been talking to Trump officials I’d be a fool to give up all my options in this position, given what it is,
It was an adversarial meeting, ... but I was very clear, especially after I found that the Trump administration had ended a program that was put in place, congestion pricing, by the duly elected members of our legislature representing the voice of the people, and with a tweet, he claims that he is the king, and therefore he has the power to destroy it."
And I have a problem with that characterization, because we labored under a king 250 years ago, and as I said, we're not going back there,
CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
Trump declared victory on Truth Social after the announcement, writing The people in my state need to know I'm willing to take the fight wherever I have to,
The Governor and the President had a frank, candid conversation about New York’s key priorities including congestion pricing, immigration, infrastructure, economic development, energy, offshore wind and nuclear power,
spokesperson Avi Small said I was proud to be able to stand in support of our brave correctional officers at the Orleans Correctional Facility last night,
If someone who is a good communicator and a serious Democrat will run for that seat, ... then I absolutely will not. If there’s someone who’s an AOC or a Maxwell Frost — if there’s someone like that who will run — then I will just be delighted.”
Jong-Fast said in a phone call Friday We had no idea the ragin’ cajun was so afraid of some good old fashioned cussing
Hochul spokesperson Avi Small said, referring to Carville’s Louisanna-themed nickname The unsealed indictments in the Robert Brooks case are a step in the right direction. However, we’ve seen indictments before,
Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, chair of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus, said It will be a deterrent, and that’s what I’m looking for,
she said of her plan to notify law enforcement when license applicants used foreign passports Think of the old Ed Sullivan act — the guy trying to keep all those plates spinning on the poles,
Steve Greenberg, the spokesman for Siena College’s polling, said of Hochul I said on Ari Melber’s show that she should run his ass out of there and speak up,
Carville told a podcast recently We have to just stay focused,
he told host Dan Mannarino in the one-on-one
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