{"id":97957,"date":"2026-01-12T23:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97957\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:26:07","slug":"trump-slams-manhattan-congestion-pricing-as-a-disaster-says-new-york-is-being-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97957\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams Manhattan congestion pricing as a ‘disaster’ — says New York is being ‘destroyed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2013 President Trump slammed Manhattan\u2019s congestion pricing <\/a>as a \u201cdisaster\u201d and called on New York City to end the program \u201cimmediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

His latest broadside at the controversial program comes as a federal court prepares to hear arguments on whether his administration can kill it off once and for all.<\/a><\/p>\n

The president has long made his dislike of the program known but, on Monday, he reiterated his displeasure with Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s program \u2014 which charges drivers up to $27 in fees just to enter Manhattan \u2014 calling it a \u201cfoolish policy\u201d that is \u201cdestroying\u201d New York.<\/p>\n

\"DonaldPresident Trump wants congestion pricing ended immediately. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cCongestion Pricing in Manhattan is a DISASTER for New York. It\u2019s got to be ended, IMMEDIATELY!,\u201d he wrote on his Truth Social account.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s never worked before, and it will never work now. I love New York, and hate to see it being destroyed so rapidly with such obviously foolish \u201cpolicy.\u201d Thank you for your attention to this matter!\u201d<\/p>\n

His administration has tried \u2014 and failed \u2014 to end the toll program, even threatening to withhold federal funding and approvals for New York projects if it doesn\u2019t die a quick death.<\/p>\n

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is leading the charge against it, setting multiple deadlines for the city to nix it.<\/p>\n

But the state and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority sued to block the administration from pulling the plug on the program. Judge Lewis Liman scheduled oral arguments on the case to begin on Wednesday, Jan. 28, after ruling the program stays in place while the lawsuit moves through the court system.<\/p>\n

\"AGov. Hochul claims the program has reduced traffic \u2014 but many motorists say otherwise.<\/p>\n

The first-ever congestion toll in the nation went into effect in early January, charging drivers $9 to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street.<\/p>\n

After a year in place, Hochul and leaders at MTA claim their program has reduced the number of vehicles in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s also caused congestion-flation as businesses pass on their toll costs to customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Delivery trucks face tolls as high as $21.60 for each trip into the congestion zone below 60th Street.<\/p>\n

And some drivers complain traffic remains terrible \u2014 it just costs more to go into the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 President Trump slammed Manhattan\u2019s congestion pricing as a \u201cdisaster\u201d and called on New York City to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[748,153,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-97957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-congestion-pricing","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97957","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=97957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}