WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Nov. 3 he would ask Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to again consider terminating the New York City vehicle congestion fee, more than five months after a federal judge blocked the effort.

The first-in-the-nation program launched in January charges most passenger vehicles $9 during peak periods to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street, which is on track to raise $500 million this year.

In May, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman issued a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Transportation Department from withholding federal funding from New York after the Trump administration sought to stop Manhattan's congestion pricing program.

Duffy in April told New York Gov. Kathy Hochul the Transportation Department could withhold en

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