Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at the Trump administration’s move to end congestion pricing in Manhattan. We’ll also get details on a hearing on the administration’s effort to drop the criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams.

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President Trump said last week that he had a plan to force New York to “kill” the congestion pricing program.

But the death of the seven-week-old program, if its death comes at all, will probably be slow — and, for the New York officials who were counting on the revenue from congestion pricing, painful.

The secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy, told Gov. Kathy Hochul in a letter that the Trump administration planned to rescind federal approval of the tolling program, which was granted by the Biden administration two weeks after the November election. Duffy said federal officials would contact the state to “discuss the orderly cessation of toll operations.”

The discussion will probably begin in court. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency in charge of the congestion pricing program, immediately filed a challenge in federal court in Manhattan. The agency’s chairman and chief executive, Janno Lieber, said that toll collection would continue.

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