The MTA brought the suit last February, within hours of the USDOT pulling federal approval for congestion pricing. Attorney Eric Hamilton, who argued for USDOT, said the agency pushed to scrap congestion pricing for a number of reasons, including shifting administration priorities. Those were “separate and apart from the legal defects in the pricing program,” he argued. She pointed out that Trump had posted on his platform Truth Social, along with a Time Magazine cover that showed him wearing a bejeweled crown, “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. The MTA has already been putting the revenue it has raised so far from congestion pricing toward funding capital projects.