President Donald Trump and Gov. Kathy Hochul met in the Oval Office days after his administration revoked federal approval for New York City congestion pricing.
President Donald Trump met with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for more than an hour on Friday to discuss a controversial Manhattan toll program known as congestion pricing. The Democratic governor also spoke with the president about immigration and energy policies during the Oval Office meeting,
Gov. Kathy Hochul met with President Trump Friday at the White House — where she portrayed NYC’s wildly unpopular congestion pricing scheme a big success, one day after the Trump administration announced plans to pull the plug on it.
Hochul and Trump met for more than an hour on Friday afternoon and also discussed other issues including immigration, infrastructure, economic development, energy, offshore wind and nuclear power.
By DAVE COLLINS New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made the case for Manhattan’s congestion tolling during an Oval Office meeting late last week with President Donald Trump after federal officials
Kathy Hochul made the case for Manhattan's congestion tolling during an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump after federal officials ordered a halt to the program, a spokesperson for the Democratic governor said.
With a pair of House members from both parties considering trying to take her job, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) will have to play defense from the right and the center — if not quite the center-left.
The governor told CBS that she believes congestion pricing is working and President Donald Trump does not have the power to unilaterally end it.
Looking right at Donald Trump on Friday afternoon in the Oval Office, Gov. Kathy Hochul tried a different approach from telling him he was acting like a king for his attempt to end New York’s pay-for-entry congesting pricing system.
New York’s congestion pricing tolls are moving forward, and Gov. Kathy Hochul is standing firm in support of the program, despite ongoing lawsuits and opposition from federal and state officials.
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) knew how she wanted to appeal to President Donald Trump on New York City’s congestion pricing plan. “Big words” and “nice colors” were included in her presentation to him, she told a laughing Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board on Wednesday.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s road show in support of congestion pricing made a stop in Midtown Wednesday at an MTA board meeting — after her in-person pitch last week to President Donald Trump. Vowing that New York “will not be steamrolled” by the federal government’s bid to shut down the vehicle-tolling plan by a newly revealed