Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was savagely booed Thursday during a news conference on California’s high-speed rail project at the Union Station in Los Angeles. The Donald Trump appointee blasted state authorities for mismanaging the once “exciting” project and claimed it had amounted to a waste of funds.
Some Trump officials are listing their own accomplishments for last week ahead of a deadline on Monday evening for federal employees to report what they achieved.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy rescinded an agreement that allowed congestion pricing tolls to start on Jan. 5.
Republicans have long targeted high-speed rail, despite its popularity with a majority of Californians. U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley, who appeared with Duffy and introduced legislation in December to defund it, blasted the railway as “the worst public infrastructure failure in U.S. history.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is doubling down on trying to blame President Donald Trump for the Delta plane crash that happened in Toronto, Canada. In an overly dramatic speech Wednesday on the U.S. Senate floor, Schumer claimed that Trump’s layoffs at the FAA are making the skies less safe.
At the behest of President Donald Trump, Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy Thursday ordered a Federal Railroad Administration review of $4 billion in funding for California's high-speed rail project.
The Trump administration has moved to pull the plug on New York’s congestion pricing toll — setting off a feisty legal showdown between the feds and the state over the controversial
New York City’s spectacularly unpopular congestion pricing scheme is on death row as the Trump administration announced Wednesday it is pulling its approval of the toll in a major blow to
Duffy, speaking at Union Station in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, said the Federal Railroad Administration will review the rail project and its leadership.
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AMNY on MSN‘This is another attack on New York’ — Queens democrats rally against Trump’s effort to kill congestion pricingElected officials across Queens have condemned President Donald Trump after the Trump Administration moved to end federal approval for congestion pricing
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Trump crowned himself in a celebratory post to Truth Social, in which the outer-borough-born mogul prematurely announced that tolls for traveling by car into the busiest parts of Manhattan were dead. "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED," he wrote. "LONG LIVE THE KING!"
Duffy did not give a time frame for trying to shut down congestion pricing, saying only that federal officials would contact the state to "discuss the orderly cessation of toll operations." MTA CEO Janno Lieber said tolling would "continue notwithstanding this baseless effort to snatch those benefits away."
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