Trump admin pushes judge to make move on lengthy battle to stop congestion pricing

The Trump administration is still trying to put the brakes on congestion pricing.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked a judge Tuesday to make a move as “soon as it is able” months after President Trump declared the toll on all vehicles entering lower Manhattan was dead.

“Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” Trump had declared on Truth Social in February.

But with litigation dragging on, the toll has been hard to kill as Duffy tries to rescind an agreement signed under the Value Pricing Pilot Program that greenlighted the program prior to Trump retaking office this year. The toll survived several legal challenges before its rollout.

In a letter filed on behalf of Duffy, assistant attorney general Brett Shumate “respectfully” asked Judge Lewis J. Liman to issue a decision on summary judgement filings in the ongoing lawsuit to the kill congestion pricing.

New York and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority sued to try to block the Trump administration from pulling the plug on the toll scheme.

The first-ever congestion toll in the nation went into effect in early January, charging drivers $9 to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street.

But back in June, Liman dealt a major blow to Duffy — as several federal “deadlines” to turn off the toll passed. He granted the MTA a preliminary injunction, halting any changes to the program for the duration of the lawsuit.

Liman wrote that the MTA had “established a likelihood of success on the merits” in arguing that the feds “acted arbitrarily and capriciously by purporting to terminate” the congestion pricing agreement, and explicitly barred Duffy from taking any “compliance measures” promised in a blustery April letter.

Both parties were asked to submit motions for summary judgement — requests for a ruling on the case from the bench alone — with each arguing the other has no case, and Liman promised a ruling by the end of the year which could end the whole suit either way.

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The fed’s letter demanding all due speed from Liman arrived with 29 days left on the clock for a ruling.