Gov. Hochul announces reduction of congestion toll pricing to $9
The head of the Big Apple’s most powerful teachers’ union flunked Gov. Kathy Hochul and “tone deaf” Democrats Thursday for socking working class New Yorkers with a“It’s not what I expected to see Democrats doing a week after the election. It’s insane! Stop screwing the working class!” United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew told The Post, saying he will continue to press his active lawsuit to stop the congestion pricing plan.
“This toll is on the backs of whoever voted for it. It’s a great day for the rich people in Manhattan and a bad day for everyone else,” Mulgrew said. Mulgrew’s fury at Democrats is ironic, after his affiliate unions — the American Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers — devotedto get Vice President Kamala Harris into the Oval Office and elect members of the party in battleground House seats., who slammed the “congestion tax” as “massive” and “regressive” in exclusive comments to The Post earlier Thursday.
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