{"id":308667,"date":"2025-10-16T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308667\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:09:09","slug":"judge-restores-34m-in-anti-terror-funds-for-nyc-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308667\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge restores $34M in anti-terror funds for NYC transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has permanently blocked the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump administration<\/a>\u00a0from withholding nearly $34 million in funding earmarked to protect New York\u2019s transit system from terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said in a ruling Thursday that the Republican administration\u2019s decision, based on the Big Apple\u2019s \u201csanctuary city\u201d protections for immigrants in the United States illegally, was \u201carbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A federal judge has permanently blocked the\u00a0Trump administration\u00a0from withholding nearly $34 million in funding earmarked to protect New York\u2019s transit system from terrorist attacks<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The judge said\u00a0the Republican administration\u2019s decision, based on the Big Apple\u2019s \u201csanctuary city\u201d protections for immigrants in the United States illegally, was \u201carbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law.\u201d<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The state sued Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency after they said last month that they were eliminating funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city\u2019s transit system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post-9\/11 Transit Security Grant Program, Kaplan noted in granting a permanent injunction, was created with instructions that money be allocated solely on the basis of terrorism risk. The judge had previously issued an order\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kristi-noem-antiterrorism-funding-nyc-4d8d4e4605c982977cb75bada4aa5622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">temporarily freezing<\/a>\u00a0the move.<\/p>\n<p>The state sued Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency after they said last month that they were eliminating funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city\u2019s transit system.<\/p>\n<p>A FEMA official disclosed in a court filing that the transit authority \u201cdid not receive funding because the applicant is based in New York City, a designated Sanctuary Jurisdiction city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MTA said its allocation, the largest of any transit agency, pays for targeted counterterrorism patrols, security equipment, infrastructure enhancements, cybersecurity technology and weapons detection technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James praised Kaplan\u2019s ruling as \u201ca victory for every New Yorker who rides our subways, buses, and commuter rails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA court has once again affirmed that this administration cannot punish New York by arbitrarily wiping out critical security resources and defunding law enforcement that keeps riders safe,\u201d Hochul and James, both Democrats, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge has permanently blocked the\u00a0Trump administration\u00a0from withholding nearly $34 million in funding earmarked to protect New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":308668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[24166,5229,24167,13565,7448,1578,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-308667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-app-for-your-consideration","11":"tag-app-local-state-politics","12":"tag-app-top-stories","13":"tag-associated-press","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115385190286585906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}