ALBANY – “They are defunding the police, full stop,” Governor Hochul said at a news conference Thursday. Last week, she successfully fought to restore $187 million in critical counterterrorism and homeland security funding cuts, which had been planned by the Department of Homeland Security.

“I just want to ask Secretary Noam, ‘how do you weaponize the federal government against a place like New York, and against federal workers as well? How are you playing political games with our lives?”‘

Now, the governor is fighting to keep the federal government from cutting critical safety and security funding for New York’s mass transit system. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority had been slated to receive $34 million in Federal Transit Security Grant program funds, which support essential co

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