New York City has won a temporary reprieve in its legal battle against the administration of US President Donald Trump, which had threatened to withhold federal funding from New York state unless the city ended its congestion pricing programme

Car brained Feds!

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    No they can’t. This is what’s happened every time trump tried to cut state funding. Courts don’t let the feds overstep their powers over states by threatening funding. Courts have ruled very consistently on this.

    • Kairos
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      9 days ago

      Funding has to be consistent throughout the United States, determined by the census, according to the constitution.