Fox News host Bill Hemmer challenged Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy after he slashed nearly 400 jobs at the Federal Aviation Administration amid airplane disasters. During a Monday interview, Duffy said he had instructed his employees to email Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to explain why they should keep their jobs.
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
Duffy, speaking at Union Station in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, said the Federal Railroad Administration will review the rail project and its leadership.
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.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is withdrawing its support for New York City’s controversial congestion pricing plan and will discuss with the state and stakeholders how to end the program, the agency announced Wednesday.
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
Donald Trump weighed in directly Tuesday for the first time on his efforts to freeze out the Associated Press from White House events because the news service declined to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The AP, the White House Correspondents’ Association and First Amendment groups have condemned the White House’s …
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."