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Transit boss Janno Lieber patted himself on the back Tuesday for balancing the MTA’s budget — conveniently ignoring fare hikes and a $1.5 billion casino money boost .

Lieber, during a state of MTA speech at New York Law School, celebrated the transit agency recovering from a $2.1 billion operating deficit since he took over in 2021 — and argued its on track to deliver its third straight balanced budget.

The turnaround came thanks to cutting $500 million a year from inefficient internal practices, a windfall from congestion pricing and new tax revenue from state budget talks last year, Lieber boasted.

“We’re spending less in real terms than before COVID, doing more with spending less,” he crowed.

“Four years later this is a different MTA.”

But the rosy financi

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