New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is demanding the Trump administration restore nearly $87 million in federal counterterrorism funding that she says was improperly withheld from the state. Hochul made the demand Tuesday alongside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a press conference, where she accused the administration of undermining…
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Trump builds a ballroom while withholding $87 million in New York counterterrorism funding, Hochul says.
“They found the money for a ballroom before they found it for the subway cops watching for another 9/11. That's not a budget crunch, that's a preference. Ask your transit cop who's covering his shift this week.”
“Look, funding formulas for counterterrorism grants are complicated, they're reviewed annually, there's process — this isn't 'withholding' so much as, uh, still being processed. Did I say the ballroom's finished? The ballroom's not even — that's a separate line item, forget I brought it up.”
The receipts
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on President Trump to free up $87 million in federal funds to pay for bomb squads and other counterterrorism measures in New York.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the Trump administration hasn’t given the state $87 million in promised federal funding.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has been in the majority in divided cases more times than any other chief since 1953.
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