President Trump’s Transportation Chief Calls Out NY Gov Hochul’s Request For More Money

Sean Duffy just put Gov. Hochul on blast for asking D.C. to bail out the MTA.

And this isn’t the first time.

He called the transit agency “horribly run” and blamed New York’s own financial mess for their lack.

And the MTA already gets billions.

But billions isn’t enough, apparently.

Hochul wants more cash.

At the same time, she’s pushing a congestion toll that’s already got New York drivers really upset

Duffy’s message?

Get your mess together.

Secretary Sean Duffy posted on X:

Outrageous! Governor Hochul is asking for MORE money for the horribly run MTA.

The MTA is running a deficit thanks to NY’s financial mismanagement, and they already receive billions in federal funding.

Instead of addressing rampant crime that’s scaring riders away or actually fixing their financial mismanagement, the state is trying to fill the gap with highway funds and taxing the working class.

Meanwhile, transit assaults are up.

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How could the state’s modernization plans say NOTHING about making transportation systems safer?

Before we make any changes to funding decisions, we’d like to see their plan to make the subway reliable, secure, and clean.

The federal government is not a blank check, and we will hold NYC leaders accountable for not keeping commuters safe.

Outrageous! Governor Hochul is asking for MORE money for the horribly run MTA.

The MTA is running a deficit thanks to NY’s financial mismanagement, and they already receive billions in federal funding.

Instead of addressing rampant crime that’s scaring riders away or actually… pic.twitter.com/08oF4yELfx

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) March 25, 2025

New York Post reports:

President Trump’s transportation chief put Gov. Kathy Hochul on notice for asking for more federal money to prop up the chronically cash-strapped MTA – as concerns over subway safety soar.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy railed against the Democrat in a Tuesday social media post, blasting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as “horribly run” as the federal government and Empire State continue to spar over a controversial Manhattan congestion toll.

“Outrageous! Governor Hochul is asking for MORE money for the horribly run MTA,” Duffy wrote in an X post. “The MTA is running a deficit thanks to NY’s financial mismanagement, and they already receive billions in federal funding.

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“Instead of addressing rampant crime that’s scaring riders away or actually fixing their financial mismanagement, the state is trying to fill the gap with highway funds and taxing the working class,” he added.

Duffy’s ire was raised after Hochul, along with state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester), sent a letter requesting the feds commit to change their funding formula for the MTA.

The letter — sent to Duffy, Trump and Republican congressional leaders — argued the federal government doesn’t pay the MTA its fair share.

“While the MTA carries 43 percent of the nation’s mass transit riders, its share of federal transit formula funding is only 17 percent,” the letter reads.

“We believe this is a fundamental misalignment.”

Just because we’re used to seeing the subways in New York City look like a crime zone in the movies, it’s not a movie set, so lets clean it up.

Just look at the subways in other countries:

The NY subway system is an embarrassment to The United States. Every other country in the world that has a subway system is better run and cleaner. China has an amazing subway system. pic.twitter.com/r85Qw31daD

— TravelMore (@AnotherOne311) March 25, 2025

Here’s Japan, the most ethnically homogenous developed country in the world. (97%+ of population is Japanese).

🛎 Shock Horror!..No diversity.

A subway train in Japan. No-one swinging on the bars 🐒 while twerking. It's clean and safe, and everyone is minding their business and getting along….. pic.twitter.com/lh7GaK6GhN

— Frantruth 🇬🇧 (@frantruth) December 5, 2023

Japan is one of the most capitalist countries and we have a safe, clean, and efficient public transportation system.

There are plenty of other capitalist countries across Europe and Asia with comparable standards.

Don’t blame capitalism for the NYC subway being garbage. https://t.co/UwVaEk1UYJ pic.twitter.com/gp7ngEaNQ2

— Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア) (@OliverJia1014) February 25, 2024

Norway is pretty clean…oh, wait. It’s still got ‘diversity’ problems.

Large Swedish man drinking a beer in the subway intervenes after a migrant suddenly starts acting aggressively.

He tells him to stop as he’s scaring the kids sitting nearby and then orders him to get out

🇸🇪 pic.twitter.com/y1ys0TDn7Q

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 23, 2025

Why is it that other countries seem to be so much more advanced and cleaner than ours?

That has to change.

And don’t get me started on the toilets.

This public toilet self cleaning is a useful system

Credit: pskolojirehberi pic.twitter.com/OSUQwC5Ov5

— Learn Something (@cooltechtipz) December 20, 2024