Trump Threatens to Defund the NYC Subway

There are few things scarier to the conservative mind than mass transportation in a major metropolitan city. To that end, Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Transportation, Sean Duffy, is demanding New York City officials provide a list of actions that they will take to reduce crime on the city’s subway system or risk losing out on federal funds. In a letter delivered Tuesday to New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority head Janno Lieber, Duffy asked for a list of “actions and plans to reduce crime on its system,” including addressing assaults, fare evasions, and “subway surfing”—the act of riding outside of a moving rail car. Lieber and the MTA will have until March 31 to provide Duffy with his sought after list, or face “enforcement actions up to and including redirecting or withholding funding”—though he didn’t offer any specifics as to how deep the cuts could be. There have been several high-profile and particularly brutal crimes on New York’s subway in recent year ... Read full article.