New York Gov. Kathy Hochul now says she might be “main the resistance” towards President Donald Trump, simply weeks after telling reporters the alternative.
Hochul mentioned she would “battle again arduous” throughout an interview with NPR’s “Morning Version” on Monday when requested about New York Metropolis’s congestion pricing toll that the Trump administration moved to dam final month.
“We provided up an olive department, [we said] ‘We’ll work with you on infrastructure. Let’s redo Penn Station,'” Hochul mentioned. “These areas had been frequent floor. However when you draw first blood on us, we’re coming again arduous. And I might be main the resistance on insurance policies like these the place you are hurting New Yorkers straight. That is our determination, not yours.”
Lower than two weeks in the past, nonetheless, the Democratic governor advised reporters simply the alternative.
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Hochul mentioned she’s going to lead the “resistance” towards the Trump administration’s agenda throughout an interview on Monday. (AP Picture/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
“I’ve been requested numerous [times] ‘are you main the resistance?’ – No, I’m governing the good state of New York,” Hochul mentioned when requested about her stance towards the Trump administration, in accordance with the New York Submit.
The Trump administration final month ordered a cease to the controversial congestion toll program in New York Metropolis. (AP Picture/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
The Trump administration final month ordered a cease to the controversial congestion toll program, which launched Jan. 5 with the targets of thinning site visitors and funding mass transit by imposing a $9 toll on most autos getting into Manhattan’s core south of Central Park.
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Later that month, Hochul met with Trump on the White Home for a one-on-one assembly, through which the governor made a case for this system. However Hochul later mentioned the assembly possible didn’t persuade Trump to vary his thoughts about this system.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has been outspoken about her ideas on the controversial tolling program. (Picture by Alex Kent/Getty Photographs)
On Monday, Hochul additionally mentioned that it is as much as Democratic governors to be the “firewall” towards the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress who threaten to slash federally funded social packages.
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Hochul mentioned that Democratic governors should heed the decision “to face up towards this destruction of insurance policies which can be serving to folks and have been in place for many years.”
