NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – President Donald Trump and Gov. Kathy Hochul both said they'd meet Friday at the White House—the first time they'll meet since the Trump administration moved to kill congestion pricing.
“She’s coming in tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock to meet me,” Trump said as he met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office Thursday.
Trump said he and the governor would discuss several topics, including construction of an underground pipeline going through a “small section” of New York state that may eventually lower energy prices.
Trump pushed for the pipeline in a Truth Social post Thursday, writing in part, “New York State has held up this project for many years, but we won’t let that happen any longer. We will use federal approval!”
Hochul said she wants to continue an Oval Office conversation the two of them had last month, when she went to D.C. to discuss congestion pricing.
“I have a lot on my agenda,” the governor said Thursday. “We talked about infrastructure, Penn Station, we talked about—he knows I want to talk about congestion pricing again. I want to talk about our concerns about energy in light of the tariffs.”
“We will have quite an agenda. I look forward to the meeting tomorrow morning,” she added.
Last month, the Trump administration moved to end congestion pricing weeks after it began.
Trump declared the tolling program “dead” and suggested he was “king” of New York City.
Hochul and MTA leadership quickly sued and said the toll is going nowhere. Toll collection remains in place as the lawsuit plays out.
“New York hasn’t labored under a king in over 250 years. We sure as hell are not going to start now,” Hochul said at the time.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.