➡ The text discusses the author’s views on New York’s political situation, focusing on Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams. The author criticizes Hochul’s governance, particularly her handling of issues like illegal migrants, budget deficits, and congestion pricing. The author also mentions the Trump administration’s involvement in New York’s affairs, particularly its opposition to congestion pricing. The author calls for greater accountability from governors like Hochul.
➡ The U.S. Department of Transportation is trying to end the congestion pricing program in New York, a move announced by Secretary Duffy and supported by President Trump. This decision has sparked a debate among New Yorkers, with some arguing it’s an attack on the city’s independence and others questioning where tax money is going if not towards improving infrastructure. The potential end of congestion pricing has received mixed reactions, with some residents and taxi drivers welcoming the change, while others worry about the return of heavy traffic and the impact on public transportation.
➡ The speaker is questioning the identity of a masked individual in New York City who struggles with English, suspecting they might be an illegal immigrant. They also discuss the benefits of reduced traffic due to congestion pricing, but express concern about who should bear the cost. The speaker mentions a terminated pilot project on congestion pricing and the divided opinions on it, with some wanting it back and others not. They promise to keep their audience updated on the situation.

New York! Let’s go over to New York, alright? New York. Kathy Hochul. Eric Adams, in my opinion, as crazy as he is, Eric Adams has 100% gotten a bad end of the deal. I think that Eric Adams 100% is culpable for a lot of the things that we see happening because he was a part of the go-along, get-along gang, especially when it came to illegal migrants. Illegal migrants in New York City, then they had to spend upwards of six or seven billion dollars, which left the federal bet up, not federal, but a local deficit within New York because they generate some of the most tax revenue inside of the United States of America, if not the most.

But they had to then freeze police hirings, cut back on that, cut back on resources that they were given inside of the schools that people paid their property taxes for, and cutting back on sanitation, amongst other things, just so they can house these people and these shelters and these luxury hotels, given food cars, and so on and so forth. But one thing that we don’t do, and we neglect it, a lot, because the mayors is the faces of the city, but at the same time, the largest city in New York also deserves to extend some of that same responsibility to people like Kathy Hochul.

Now, I think that Kathy Hochul, as I deep dive into who she is and the things that she’s done, I think that she’s absolutely deplorable, one of the, if not the, worst governor inside of the United States of America. I can’t give it to her, I’ll probably give her number three. She’d probably take place number three, all right? Because Gavin Newsom definitely take that mantle. And then J.B. Pritzker is running for a close first, definitely right there in the second place. And then you got their mayors that’s doing their biddings in some of these cities, Gavin Newsom has Karen Bass, J.B.

Pritzker has Brandon Johnson, we’re gonna get to that in a minute, and then Kathy Hochul has Eric Adams. The difference is, let me get some water in a minute, the difference is J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson are on the same page when it comes to taking advantage of the people over in Chicago. Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass seems to be on the same page when it comes to taking advantage of the people of Los Angeles and not doing the thing that’s in the best interest of the city. Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams on the other end, they’re at odds, they’re at odds.

Largely because Eric Adams is working with the Trump administration, we’ve covered that, we’re gonna continue to cover it. But one thing that is absolutely, positively 100% has to happen is we have to start holding these governors accountable and putting their feet to the fire, not just Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker and Kathy Hochul. And right now, Kathy Hochul is going through a war of words with the Trump administration over congestion pricing, but before we get to that, I want to show you guys some of the things that’s happening inside of New York City. Let’s get to it.

He’s among the voices we’re amplifying tonight on what’s been a very busy day three of the strikes outside of dozens of New York state prisons. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us once again. Just hours ago, the governor announced she is activating more than 3,500 National Guard members to support operations at striking prisons. The number of facilities with employees on the picket line tonight now up to 30. That’s according to the union representing these officers, and that includes five state prisons right here in Western New York. So, while they’re telling ICE don’t work with Eric Adams to deport illegal migrants that have been captured and doing some of the worst crimes inside of your city, there are protests that is not being covered by national news that’s happening right in New York.

Amongst other different issues that is taking place, and Kathy Hochul, who is the governor of New York, refused to do a good job for the citizens of New York. You know what she did? You know what she chooses to engage in while she’s activating the National Guard and while the prisons are under siege and people are protesting and everything is going to hell over there in New York City. You know what she decided to do? She decided to go against Trump. Because one of the things that we’ve been talking about, and that’s been happening, is congestion pricing, which is basically a tax on the people for driving in New York City.

They pay for the cars, they pay for the roads, they pay for the tolls, but now they got congestion pricing, which is just another way for them to continue to fleece money, in my opinion, out of the taxpayers, citizens, and the people of New York City. But Trump decided to do something about it. This is what he did. Breaking right now an update on those congestion prices over in New York City. Our partners, they’re reporting on that news just moments ago. Let’s listen to that. I’m Jessica Moore with Breaking News. We have just learned the Trump administration is pulling the approval for congestion pricing.

The Department of Transportation is sending a letter to Governor Hochul this afternoon saying it is, quote, backward and unfair. We have a copy of that letter. It says it’s not a fair deal. Everyone should have access to the city, not just the elite. Congressman Mike Lawler tells our Marcia Kramer he was informed today that the decision had been made to end the toll that just went into effect on January 5th. As you know, he charges drivers $9 to drive into Manhattan’s central business district. And Marcia joins us now with more. Marcia, we barely had one month of this, and now it’s just, it’s over.

Is it that simple? Well, the thing about it is this that President Trump made a promise on the campaign trail that he was going to end congestion pricing. And today the people who wanted him to make that promise are saying, thank God he made the promise. So essentially, Trump said no more congestion pricing. And again, I say this for everybody, regardless of whether you like Trump or you like the policies or the things that he promised on the campaign trail with literally. So today he was inaugurated on January 20th, 2025. It is February 20th, 2025.

It seems like he’s been in office for four years already, and he’s only been in office for a month because we’ve seen more of him every single day, making himself accountable to the reporters, asking unscripted questions, doing interviews, signing executive orders, trying to end wars, doing all of the fraud, government audits and all kind of stuff that’s happening out here, designating bathrooms and making sure that men don’t go into women’s bathrooms. And whatever it is that you can think of, every single thing that he said that he was going to do on the campaign trail, he is doing.

You may not have agreed with the thing that he said that he was going to do, but the one thing that you can’t say, unlike other politicians, he doesn’t lie. He’s not going to lie to you and say that I’m going to do this, and then he doesn’t do it. He don’t at least fight for you. He’s not implementing it. He’s not signing an executive order. He’s not making sure that Congress is aligned. And one of the things that he said on the campaign trail is, I am going to, within a month, end congestion pricing over in New York.

You’re welcome. Promises made, promises kept. But Kathy Hochul, she’s not happy about that. That’s not something that she’s ecstatic about because it’s one of her landmark things that she’s done in New York to cost people more money. And I don’t think that people need to be taxed more. I’m sick of taxes because taxes come in all different forms. It’s not just what comes out of your paycheck. It’s your property taxes is being taxed to go into the city that you got to work in. You got to pay extra money every single day. And what is done is it’s completely killed any kind of traffic and any kind of motion and movement inside of New York City because it costs you more just to be able to get there.

Or whether you’re a cab driver, whether you actually work in a city, you’re a firefighter, whether you work on Wall Street, no matter what, the people are paying more and more and more and more and more of your income is going to government sources that are not accountable to where the money is being spent. And so she decided to have a press conference to address Trump and delivering this promise for New Yorkers and making sure that even though they didn’t vote for him as a state, New York has been a blue state for a long time that he still is the president of everybody, not just the people that voted for him in the swing states.

Good afternoon. I’m joined here today by Dana Lieber, the chairman and CEO of the MTA, and my counsel, Brian Mahana. At 1.01 p.m. today, the U.S. Department of Transportation emailed us a letter from Secretary Duffy announcing their attempt to end the congestion pricing program in the state of New York. At 1.58 p.m., President Donald Trump tweeted, Long Live the King. What Drake say? My Mount Rushmore is me with four different expressions. Trump need his own Mount Rushmore. He might just build it for himself. A part of his presidential library might be him having his own Mount Rushmore.

Long Live the King. I’m here to say New York hasn’t labored under a king in over 250 years. We are not. We sure as hell are not going to start now. The streets of this city were battles were fought. We stood up to a king, and we won then. In case you don’t know New Yorkers, we’re in a fight. We do not back down, not now, not ever. Because who are we fighting for here? We’re fighting for our residents, our commuters, our riders, our drivers, our emergency personnel. Life has gotten better for those who have asthma, people with illness.

That’s who we’re fighting for. Now, I’m not the sharpest knife in the tool shed at all. Not even close. Not even close. But let me ask you all a question. When you see these politicians get up on these microphones and they say, we’re fighting for people that may have asthma. So you have congestion pricing for the people that have asthma. That is why you have congestion pricing. I just want to make sure that we all on the same page. I want to make sure that we all doing the same thing. I want to make sure that we all on board.

You’re fighting for the people that have asthma. That’s why you have congestion pricing. I see this is going to be one of them shows. Let me get more comfortable. I’m going to get some water, take my jacket off, and we’re going to have a conversation. And the six million people who use the MTA to get to their jobs and their lives and their doctorate, nurses, doctors, EMTs, all they really need to get to their jobs in a reliable way, they’re now going to be affected. So I also have to raise a question. They look at the pretense for this rejection, and we have a lot of legal reasons why we know we’re going to be victorious.

But they actually cited the will of New Jersey. New Jersey didn’t want this. Ignoring the will, the people live here, they’re elected leaders in Albany, and all of a sudden the Trump administration is citing, well, New Jersey wasn’t happy. I’ll talk about that later. But here’s what I want to also say. I don’t care if you love congestion pricing or hate it. This is an attack on our sovereign identity, our independence from Washington. And this is, we are a nation, we are a nation of states. This is what we fought for. This is like Alexander Hamilton and others fought for to set up a system.

We are not subservient to a king or anyone else out of Washington. I think that the worst thing, the absolute positive worst thing that you can do as a politician, the absolute worst thing that you can do as a governor, the absolute worst thing that you can do as a mayor, is to fight and not be on the same page as the president. The person that controls the purse strings for your city and the funding that then goes to these cities. The absolute worst thing that you can do as a governor or a mayor is to fight and be in a lock, lock hold, a choke hold with the president of the United States of America.

It never works out well for you. It never ever will work out well for you at all. And I don’t know who these 13 people are that inside of the audience that are clapping. They got a bunch of their supporters. Oh, yeah. It’s not going to work out well for you at all. This is the fight we’re in. It’s all about our sovereignty. And I spoke to the president many times in a reasonable way, calm way. You’re a New Yorker. I’m a real cash absolutely essential. It is to have safe, reliable public transit or else this system shuts down.

Our economy shuts down. The nation’s economy could shut down. That’s how essential we are. And one would think he would know that. And then you have others involved. And it feels like it feels like it feels like the commuters of our city and our region are now the roadkill on Donald Trump’s revenge tour against New York. This is the worst speech. And I don’t even know how New Yorkers decided that they wanted to elect her. Absolutely positively one of the worst speeches that I’ve seen ever. And so I’m just going to go ahead and bypass it.

And I’m going to get straight to what the people in New York City because I know that some people is liking it and some people is hating it. But congestion pricing is going away. So y’all can thank Donald Trump for that. But the thing that I’m really, really, really concerned about is why would people want to be taxed more? Why would you want more taxes? And the worst, worst thing that politicians say on a regular basis, but it doesn’t make sense is they say that if you remove congestion pricing, that it doesn’t bode well for the public transportation system, the aging infrastructure that needs to be updated.

So where the heck is all of the money that they already paying into the system going? Where the heck is all the taxpayer money going? If it’s not going towards sanitation, if it’s not going towards infrastructure, if it’s not going to making sure that everybody has good, reasonable public transportation, if it’s not going to public safety, if it’s not going to the schools, where is all of the billions? And when we talk about New York City, this is not Chicago. This is not Houston. This is not Memphis. This is not any of these places.

New York City has hundreds of billions of dollars that they allocate every single year for or from taxpayer citizens, taxpaying citizens. This is your money, all of the money and the resources and all of the revenue that is generated in New York City. If it’s not going towards helping the people, if you can’t actually use it for infrastructure, then maybe you need to get an Elon Musk-ish type person to come in and audit the federal government. But we know that they don’t want to do that because once we start to uncover the books, then we see where all the fraud is going and we can see who really getting the money.

We need to have a similar system that is happening that the federal government takes place in every major city, especially these sanctuary cities. But they’re trying to pitch it to y’all like, well, if we don’t have congestion pricing, not only will little Timmy get asthma, but we also won’t be able to update the aging infrastructure that we need. So what the heck are y’all paying taxes for in the first place if you can’t be responsible for how the budget is being used effectively? But this is how New Yorkers are reacting to it. Whether you like congestion pricing or not, it is an indisputable fact that vehicular traffic below 60th Street in Manhattan has been down since January 5th when the program began.

This is what the approach to the Lincoln and Holland tunnels looked like during the evening rush immediately after congestion pricing took effect. The question now, if the tolls are gone, will the riders and the gridlock return? That was the report of Tanya Rivera live on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Well, that’s quite a number of our coverage tonight, and we’re interested in this answer, Tanya. Yeah, well, you know, there are a lot of questions to be answered right now. New Yorkers are really curious about what this directive is going to mean in the short term for them.

We asked around, we found a variety of reactions not only to the Trump administration’s move today, but also to the tolling program itself. We found reaction to the potential end of congestion pricing to be a mixed bag here in the city. In the Good Riddance Camp, Manhattanite Tim Allen. I feel like it’s like nickel and diming us, like every little piece that we have. This city is built on like the small people, and man, we’re running out of money. And some cabbies who say they’ve been losing business. Less people take a cab. Have you noticed that? Of course.

We’re teaching places. No good. This Uber TLC driver is ambivalent, but thinks more people will come into the city without it. The TLC place, it doesn’t affect, so for me, it’s no difference. Right, you don’t care? Yeah, I don’t care. In the Keep Congestion Pricing Camp, other cabbies, drivers, and delivery cyclists who appreciate the noticeably less traffic. It’s easier for us, no? It’s easier for you to get them out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That congestion price is good. Hold on, hold on, dog. I’ve got suspicions about the fact that you got the poo-shycy mask on.

Is it because you cold, or is it because you don’t want to be identified as an illegal migrant, not getting around the city? I’m suspicious now of anybody that can’t speak a full sentence in English. Especially if you’re in the sanctuary city, I want to know what’s going on. Let me see this again. Take lists to appreciate the noticeably less traffic. It’s easier for us, no? It’s easier for you to get them out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tom Holman, please. Can you please investigate the man that don’t speak a full sentence in English and he’s got his face covered in New York City? I want to know whether or not he’s just cold and he’s trying to make sure that he weathers the storm or if he’s actually an illegal migrant.

And if so, I would like my $700 to $1,000 bounty. Thank you very much. That’s all I’m saying. That’s all I’m saying. Congestion price is good. It’s good for everybody. It’s easy to close the city and go uptown and downtown. If you want the choice, keep congestion pricing or get rid of congestion pricing. No, if keeping is good for the city, it’s good. And while Alan would be thrilled to see the toll disappear, he wonders if the fee will just pop up somewhere else. I think what we need to really take a look at is not us paying for all the money, but maybe the people who actually have money to pay for this.

Local and state lawmakers also divided on the issue are still formulating a response to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s letter to Governor Kathy Hochul today saying congestion pricing is now a terminated pilot project. This is extremely disappointing. Donald Trump wants to bring back the traffic. And I also think it’s a little bit misguided right now. Six in 10 New Yorkers don’t want Donald Trump to overturn this program. And we’ve seen incredible positive results. I want to see who the sources are. I want to see where y’all did this. That out. No, don’t. We don’t want to hear that.

We don’t want to hear that. I’m sure that the people don’t want more taxes. But anyways, ladies and gentlemen, that is what’s going on over in New York City. As usual, I will stay up to date on what’s happening and I will keep you guys informed and in the loop of why and who, what, when, where, why and how people are dealing with the fact that they don’t know. They no longer have to pay taxes with congestion pricing. [tr:trw].

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