{"id":68042,"date":"2026-03-04T09:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-administrations-bid-to-halt-new-york-city-congestion-toll-blocked-in-court\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:57:26","slug":"trump-administrations-bid-to-halt-new-york-city-congestion-toll-blocked-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-administrations-bid-to-halt-new-york-city-congestion-toll-blocked-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration\u2019s bid to halt New York City congestion toll blocked in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge notes New York legislature passed $9 fee and it was signed into law by governor before federal approvals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A federal judge has blocked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s efforts to halt New York\u2019s first-in-the-nation congestion fee meant to reduce traffic and pump revenue into the region\u2019s aging transit system.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Liman, a US district judge, on Tuesday ruled that the US Department of Transportation lacked the authority to unilaterally rescind approval of the $9 toll, which was initially green-lighted by Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/04\/new-york-city-congestion-toll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge notes New York legislature passed $9 fee and it was signed into law by governor before federal approvals Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to halt New York\u2019s first-in-the-nation congestion fee meant to reduce traffic and &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration\u2019s bid to halt New York City congestion toll blocked in court\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-administrations-bid-to-halt-new-york-city-congestion-toll-blocked-in-court\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration\u2019s bid to halt New York City congestion toll blocked in court\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}