Blue state workers rally around top Trump official targeting congestion pricing: ‘Borderline stealing’
EXCLUSIVE: New York City workers slammed the city’s congestion traffic pricing in a new ad from the Department of Transportation. “I think with raised toll prices, raised train fares, now you want to add like tolls on the streets, I think it’s definitely borderline stealing,” one man said in the clip. “It’s ridiculous, it’s gonna.. it’s destroying the city,” another New York worker said. “It makes it more expensive for me to come to work,” one man stated. BLUE STATE’S BAIL LAWS PANNED BY POLICE CHIEF AS VIOLENT SUSPECTS REPEATEDLY CUT LOOSE The video is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to crack down on the fee that proponents argue is an important method to curbing Manhattan traffic. “Hard-working New Yorkers aren’t pissed off at the White House. They’re pissed off about being charged $9 to use their own streets. Don’t take it from me, listen to what the people have to say about New York’s congestion pricing cash grab. End the disconnect. End congestion pricing. Now,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement on Friday. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS MAY GET PAY HIKE AS TRUMP ADMIN LOOKS TO BOOST RECRUITMENT The Federal Highway Administration Executive Director Gloria Shepherd wrote a letter asking the tolls to end on March 21. The tolls, although technically a pilot program, have proven to be a money boon, as they netted $37.5 million in January. In addition to the letter from Shepherd, Duffy also scrapped the Biden-era agreement between the department and New York for the program. Despite the request, New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed for “orderly resistance” in response to the FHWA’s request for ending the program in an “orderly manner,” according to ABC News. HOCHUL CANCELS CUNY PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST ERUPTS “Our position is clear: this is not a lawful order. We have already filed a lawsuit and now it’s up to the courts to decide,” John J. McCarthy, MTA chief of policy and external relations, stated earlier this week about the request. The tolls are in effect in Manhattan on and south of 60th Street daily. Fox News’ Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
Trump to make English official language of US in new executive order
President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order that will make English the official language of the U.S., Fox News Digital confirmed Friday morning. Trump will sign the executive order later on Friday, which rescinds a mandate issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000 that required federal agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, a White House official shared with Fox News Digital. The U.S. has never had an official language across its nearly 250-year history, though every major document, including the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, has been written in English. About 180 of the 195 countries across the globe have official languages, leaving the U.S. as one of the few countries that has not officiated a language, a White House official shared. It will be left to individual federal agencies to assess whether to offer services in languages other than English, Fox Digital learned. TRUMP TO RENAME GULF OF MEXICO, MOUNT DENALI ON FIRST DAY IN OFFICE Trump previously previewed potentially officiating English as the nation’s language, including in 2024 as he railed against the Biden administration’s immigration policies. GOOGLE MAPS, FAA OFFICIALLY ACKNOWLEDGES GULF OF AMERICA AFTER TRUMP DECLARATION: ‘ISN’T IT BEAUTIFUL?’ “We have languages coming into our country. We don’t have one instructor in our entire nation that can speak that language,” Trump said while speaking before the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2024. “These are languages—it’s the craziest thing—they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a very horrible thing.” The order is intended to celebrate multilingual Americans who have learned English and passed it down to their family members, while also “empowering immigrants” to reach the American dream via a common language, Fox Digital learned. Trump has signed at least 76 executive orders since reclaiming the Oval Office in January. His executive orders and actions have included renaming areas of the country to better celebrate the nation and its history, including renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and signing an executive order to drop the Obama-era name Mount Denali, the tallest peak in the U.S. located in the Alaska range, back to its original Mount McKinley.
Uttarakhand Avalanche: 16 out of 57 trapped workers rescued so far, operation underway
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