New York Gov. Kathy Hochul now says she will probably be “leading the resistance” in opposition to President Donald Trump, simply weeks after telling reporters the other.
Hochul mentioned she would “fight back hard” throughout an interview with NPR’s “Morning Edition” on Monday when requested about New York Metropolis’s congestion pricing toll that the Trump administration moved to dam final month.
“We offered up an olive branch, [we said] ‘We’ll work with you on infrastructure. Let’s redo Penn Station,'” Hochul mentioned. “Those areas were common ground. But once you draw first blood on us, we’re coming back hard. And I will be leading the resistance on policies like these where you’re hurting New Yorkers directly. This is our decision, not yours.”
Lower than two weeks in the past, nevertheless, the Democratic governor instructed reporters simply the other.
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Hochul mentioned she is going to lead the “resistance” in opposition to the Trump administration’s agenda throughout an interview on Monday. (AP Photograph/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
“I’ve been asked countless [times] ‘are you leading the resistance?’ – No, I’m governing the great state of New York,” Hochul mentioned when requested about her stance towards the Trump administration, in keeping with the New York Publish.
The Trump administration final month ordered a cease to the controversial congestion toll program in New York Metropolis. (AP Photograph/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 visitors and funding mass transit by imposing a $9 toll on most autos coming into Manhattan’s core south of Central Park.
Later that month, Hochul met with Trump on the White Home for a one-on-one assembly, during which the governor made a case for this system. However Hochul later mentioned the assembly seemingly 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. (Photograph by Alex Kent/Getty Photos)
On Monday, Hochul additionally mentioned that it is as much as Democratic governors to be the “firewall” in opposition to the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress who threaten to slash federally funded social packages.
Hochul mentioned that Democratic governors should heed the decision “to stand up against this destruction of policies that are helping people and have been in place for decades.”
