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MTA officials have spent the last three years waiting for a mountain of COVID-19 relief cash from the feds that may never arrive, leaving a hole in the agency’s budget that must be filled by riders and taxpayers.

Financial reports show the MTA seeks $600 million over the next two years from FEMA as reimbursement for contracts issued 2020 and 2021. The contracts covered supplies, equipment and workers who cleaned the subways during the darkest days of the pandemic, when former Gov. Andrew Cuomo shut down th

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