A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration Wednesday from yanking nearly $34 million in MTA counterterrorism grants to New York — a day after $187 million in cuts to similar federal funds to the state were spared.

Manhattan federal judge Lewis Kaplan noted that the reduction in the MTA grant money would force New York to “significantly to reduce its police presence and its counter terrorism activities.”

The anti-terror funds — created in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, where 3,000 people died “within sight of this courthouse” — can be distributed “solely on the risk of terrorist activities,” the judge said. 3

During the 30-minute hearing, Kaplan also noted that it seemed likely that the state will be able to prove that the White House tried to “punish” it for “e

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