CARMEL – Putnam County MTA Board member Neal Zuckerman has blasted Washington Republicans for cutting 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 counter-terror and transit security functions. But Albany lawmakers have been notified that the MTA was to be the only agency of 21 applicants nationwide to not receive federal security dollars via this program.

Governor Kathy Hochul has also called out the Trump administration for canceling the funding. “The shocking actions of Washington Republicans to slash these funds and defund the police put New York City at risk. We will not tolerate these cuts; New York will take ev

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