{"id":318759,"date":"2026-08-11T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318759\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:02:06","slug":"trump-floats-possible-legal-challenge-to-new-york-tax-on-luxury-second-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318759\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Floats Possible Legal Challenge to New York Tax on Luxury Second Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 11 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. \u2060President \u2060Donald Trump said \u2060on Tuesday that he \u200bwas assessing whether the federal \u200cgovernment could mount a \u200clegal challenge to \u2060avert \u2060a progressive surcharge on luxury second homes \u200bin New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Trump called New York&#8217;s new &#8220;pied-a-terre&#8221; tax &#8220;dangerous political \u200bexperiment&#8221; in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060new \u2060tax &#8211; named after \u2060a \u200bFrench term for a secondary residence \u200bthat translates \u2060as &#8220;foot on the ground&#8221; &#8211; was passed into law as part of the New York \u2060state budget in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am looking to see \u2060if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The tax has already been challenged in state court and a Staten Island \u2060judge on Monday temporarily blocked its rollout, according to U.S. media.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones \u200band Ismail Shakil; Editing \u200bby Doina Chiacu)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 11 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. \u2060President \u2060Donald Trump said \u2060on Tuesday that he \u200bwas assessing whether the federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63353,9,24,55,54,56,3206,4764,901],"class_list":["post-318759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-collections-political","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-political-news","tag-reuters","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}