House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wouldn’t commit to the feds being able to chip in the record high amount of funding towards its last five-year capital plan and framed it as an issue that Big Apple voters should consider in November.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential victory is key to bailing out the cash-strapped MTA following the death of congestion pricing in New York City, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Monday.
Jeffries, one of the state’s most powerful Democrats in DC, wouldn’t say whether the feds would continue giving billions of dollars to the beleaguered MTA — instead saying that that’s “one of the reasons why who wins in November will be so important.
“We need Vice President Harris to succeed,” Jeffries told reporters at an event with MTA Chairman Janno Lieber in Brooklyn, where ground was broken on a project to add elevators to the Classon Avenue G train station.
“If she succeeds, New York City succeeds, and the MTA will succeed.
