Despite Donald Trump’s attempts to vanquish it, New York City’s congestion-pricing program has continued unabated, blowing past a mandated April 20 deadline from the federal government to end the toll for drivers traveling at or below 60th Street. Since then, the Trump administration has threatened to withhold billions of dollars in federal transit dollars if New York officials don’t wind down the tolling program by May 21.

“The federal government sends billions to New York — but we won’t foot the bill if Governor Hochul continues to implement an illegal toll to backfill the budget of New York’s failing transit system,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote in a

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