{"id":291314,"date":"2025-10-10T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291314\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:00:40","slug":"hochul-slams-trump-admin-for-defunding-the-police-on-nyc-subways-and-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291314\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul slams Trump admin for \u2018defunding the police\u2019 on NYC subways and trains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Hochul blasted Homeland Security honcho Kristi Noem and the Trump administration Thursday for denying $34 million in security funding to the MTA and NYPD last week over New York City\u2019s immigration laws<\/a> \u2014 as a federal judge indicated he would soon rule on the legality of the denial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are defunding the police \u2014 full stop,\u201d Hochul told reporters Friday, speaking in front of a bank of security camera feeds in the situation room of MTA\u2019s Manhattan headquarters. \u201cIn a stark moment of hypocrisy, the federal government is literally threatening our ability to keep [transit] operations safe,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a person who swore an oath \u2014 as we all did \u2014 to protect Americans, and is truly abandoning that.\u201d the governor said of Trump\u2019s controversial Homeland Security secretary.<\/p>\n

A presentation deck put together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency \u2014 a subagency of the Department of Homeland Security \u2014 showed the MTA as the only agency of the 21 that applied for the Transit Security Grant Program to be allocated nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf the 21 agencies that applied, one was not selected because it is based in a Sanctuary Jurisdiction city,\u201d read a copy of the presentation obtained by the Daily News.<\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Letitia James swiftly took the Trump regime to court over the funding denial last week, and Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a restraining order against the feds shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

\"Gov.Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted the Trump administration on Thursday for \u201cdefunding the police\u201d and denying $34 million in transit security grants to New York. (Evan Simko-Bednarski \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

At a hearing Thursday, Kaplan indicated he would issue a preliminary injunction or a judgment on the merits in favor of the New York AG, pending confirmation from the Trump administration that the facts of the case were straightforward and did not need to be hashed out at an evidentiary hearing. He gave the government until Thursday afternoon to confirm, and didn\u2019t say when he would rule or what relief he would grant.<\/p>\n

The AG has asked the court to require DHS and FEMA to award New York the full $33.8 million in funds through the Transit Security Grant Program and set aside its decision to reallocate the money to less at-risk states. Last week, Kaplan issued a temporary restraining order preventing the government from disbursing the funds.<\/p>\n

In opposing the request, lawyers for the Trump administration have argued that the issue is moot because more than $33 million in funds had to be obligated by the conclusion of the fiscal year on Oct. 1 and had already been earmarked for other recipients.<\/p>\n

They denied that the decision-making was \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d and that New York would suffer irreparable harm if it did not receive the funding.<\/p>\n

The MTA, Trump administration lawyers wrote Monday, \u201cdid not receive funding because it is located in New York City, which is designated as a Sanctuary Jurisdiction City.\u201d<\/p>\n

They cited a notice published by FEMA in August that said DHS \u201cmay take any remedy for noncompliance, including termination\u201d of funds if states or local governments fail to comply with the Trump administration\u2019s hard-line immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnsuring \u2026 that recipients enforce federal immigration laws and policies is a rational reason in support of the agency\u2019s denial of federal funds,\u201d the government\u2019s Monday opposition brief read.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn injunction would essentially prevent the agency from pursuing one of the government\u2019s policy priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The federal government also claimed that the MTA could not receive relief because it was based in New York City, an assertion AG lawyers said appeared \u201cto be based on a misapprehension,\u201d as the MTA is a state, not a city, agency.<\/p>\n

In response to the opposition, the AG\u2019s office in filings this week noted the Trump administration had not contested that, absent relief, critical public safety programs \u2014 like those employing technologies to detect weapons of mass destruction \u2014 would not be harmed.<\/p>\n

The Transit Security Grant Program, created by Congress in response to 9\/11, directed that funds would go to applicants \u201c\u2018solely\u2019 on the basis of the risk of terrorist attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaplan, at a hearing last week, said it appeared clear that the funds were cut off because of the Trump administration\u2019s determination \u201cthat New York should be punished\u201d for failing to satisfy the Trump administration\u2019s wishes \u201cwith respect to what it calls \u2018the largest deportation program in history.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The MTA has routinely received funding through the Transit Security Grant Program since the program\u2019s inception in 2005.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy<\/a> earlier this year, the MTA said it had received $19.8 million in TSG program money last year. Of that, $10 million went to security on the subway system, \u201cincluding NYPD patrols, bag screening, expansion and training of the canine unit, and cybersecurity.\u201d The remaining $9.8 million funded security on the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Railroad, according to the letter.<\/p>\n

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch expanded on that Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past 18 years we have consistently used these funds from this grant to support deployments of counterterrorism officers into New York City subway stations, tunnels, equipment rooms, tracks and train cars,\u201d she said. That included canine units trained to detect explosive, chemical or radiological threats, undercover officers, \u201cheavy weapons teams for a visible presence,\u201d and networks of surveillance cameras throughout the system.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 9\/11, the New York City subway system has been a persistent target,\u201d Tisch said, saying the NYPD has foiled eight plots against the subway in that time.<\/p>\n

The feds\u2019 decision to take away funding, the commissioner said, is a \u201cprofound mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese program funds are the difference between preventing the next attack in our transit system, and a transit system left exposed to it,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n

The denied transit security funding comes amid an onslaught of fiscal attacks on the Empire State by the Trump administration. Last week, just hours into the ongoing federal shutdown over health care funding, Transportation Secretary Duffy announced he was withholding $18 billion in funding<\/a> for the MTA\u2019s Second Ave. subway expansion as well as the Hudson River Tunnel, a joint effort between New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

That came a day after Noem announced she was cutting nearly $187 million in counterterror funding to New York \u2014 cuts Trump later reversed after pressure from Hochul and New York elected officials from both parties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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