New York has been hit with a slew of federal funding cuts and clawbacks in the past month: $18 billion in infrastructure funding for the Hudson tunnel and Second Avenue subway, $34 million in counterterrorism dollars for the MTA and half a billion in clean energy grants. (Another $187 million was initially revoked but later restored .) That’s not to mention the $80 million in FEMA funding that the Trump administration quietly took from the city’s bank account in February. Negotiations with the White House, pressure campaigns and suing the feds has been the only recourse that states like New York have had in fighting back against federal funding cuts. But a bill introduced in Albany earlier this year could give the state some teeth – or open up new legal headaches.

The RECOURSE Act (

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