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Adams demurs on Trump congestion pricing opposition: ‘I don’t control that’

January 14, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff
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CITYWIDE – MAYOR ERIC ADAMS ON Monday declined to either endorse or oppose a potential move by the incoming Trump administration to shut down the city’s new congestion pricing, according to City and State New York. Whether the president-elect would be able to do so is still up in the air, but Trump has said he would scrap the program, and recently met with U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, Brooklyn’s lone Republican House representative and a strong opponent of the $9 toll. Adams has in the past expressed ambivalence for congestion pricing, but has said the city should have more control over it. His current position is that the program’s future is in the hands of the state and federal government.

“If he reverses it, it doesn’t matter if I support or don’t support (it) […] If the federal government has the authority to do something within their powers, then we can’t sit back and complain about it, because we do things within our powers,” Adams said.

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