The Trump administration is still pressing for a halt to congestion pricing.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked a judge on Tuesday to move “soon as it is able,” after President Trump declared the toll on all vehicles entering lower Manhattan effectively dead.
In February, Trump posted “Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” on Truth Social.
Despite those claims, the toll has proved sticky. Duffy is trying to cancel an agreement signed under the Value Pricing Pilot Program—an arrangement that approved the scheme before Trump took office—while the toll survived several pre‑rollout legal challenges.
In a letter on Duffy’s behalf, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate “respectfully” asked Judge Lewis J. Liman to issue a decision on the summary‑judgement filings in the lawsuit aimed at ending congestion pricing.
New York and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) sued to stop the administration from pulling the plug on the toll. The first national congestion charge began in early January, costing drivers $9 to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street.
Judge Liman dealt a significant blow to Duffy in June: he granted the MTA a preliminary injunction that froze any changes to the program, citing the MTA’s “established a likelihood of success on the merits” and explicitly prohibiting Duffy from taking any “compliance measures” he’d outlined in an April letter.
Both sides filed motions for summary judgment—each asserting the other held no case—while Judge Liman promised a ruling by year‑end that could resolve the entire suit one way or the other.
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