{"id":5161,"date":"2025-10-16T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5161\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:37:08","slug":"ny-judge-orders-trump-admin-to-send-mta-34m-in-anti-terror-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5161\/","title":{"rendered":"NY judge orders Trump admin to send MTA $34M in anti-terror funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to send $34 million in anti-terrorism grants to the MTA \u2014 calling\u00a0its abrupt bid to yank the cash<\/a>\u00a0a \u201cblatant violation of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to disperse the funds to the Big Apple to be used to \u201chelp protect the people who every day ride the MTA\u2019s subways, commuter trains and buses and who use its bridges and tunnels against terrorist attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

FEMA had sent a presentation to congressional staffers in September revealing that it would be withholding the funds \u2014 which would in part lead to fewer cops patrolling the subway \u2014 because of New York City\u2019s status as a sanctuary city, the ruling said.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

FEMA was ordered by Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan to send $34 million to NYC, calling\u00a0the Trump administration\u2019s abrupt bid to yank the cash\u00a0a \u201cblatant violation of the law.\u201d
Michael Nagle<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving considered all of the evidence, this court now holds that the withholding of these funds is arbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

Kaplan noted in his ruling that New York City has \u201cremained a prime target\u201d for terrorists after the Sept.11 attacks, and that, according to the NYPD, \u201cthe subways alone have been the subject of at least eight terrorist plots\u201d since that devastating day.<\/p>\n

The funding grants, which were created in the wake of 9\/11, are meant to be disbursed solely based on the risk of terrorist activities.<\/p>\n

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said earlier this month that the sudden decision to withhold the funding was meant to root out wasteful government spending.<\/p>\n

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul \u2014 seen here with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and MTA CEO Janno Lieber \u2014 cheered Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan\u2019s ruling. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n

The money will \u201chelp protect the people who every day ride the MTA\u2019s subways, commuter trains and buses and who use its bridges and tunnels against terrorist attacks.\u201d Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n

But DHS \u201cdoes not dispute the authenticity\u201d of the document that divulged that the funds were in fact being yanked because of New York City\u2019s status as a sanctuary city \u2014 a term that describes cities that limit their cooperation with the administration\u2019s aggressive deportation efforts, the ruling said.<\/p>\n

DHS officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Attorney General Letitia James issued a statement cheering the decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ruling protecting critical counterterrorism funding is a victory for every New Yorker who rides our subways, buses, and commuter rails,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cA court has once again affirmed that this administration cannot punish New York by arbitrarily wiping out critical security resources and defunding law enforcement that keeps riders safe. We will always fight to ensure that New York gets the resources we need to support our law enforcement and keep people safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to send $34 million in anti-terrorism grants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,5025,57,141,9,24,55,54,56,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-5161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-fema","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-mta","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","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=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}