Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill O'Reilly on the War Between Donald Trump and the State of New York

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

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Donald Trump has knocked out congestion pricing in New York City. All right? So Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says, it's gone because federal highway aid prohibits tolling on roads built with federal funds unless Congress grants an exception. They found a loophole. The Trump administration found a loophole and said,

you can't do it. Now, it'll be, of course, litigated, but this is a war now between Donald Trump and the city of New York, Kathy Hockel and all of that. And this ties into the Adams thing, where we're monitoring that, of course, whether Hockel's going to fire Adams or not, and that's all about Adams cooperating with Trump and the migrants. So what a mess this is. Now, am I surprised that Trump is doing this?

No, because he doesn't like the way his hometown, New York City, Trump was born and raised in Queens, is being run. I mean, he holds New York City accountable for all the charges living against him by Alvin Bragg and the civil stuff and all that. and he's going to stick it to the local and state governments in New York. And that's exactly what he's doing. And Duffy said, you know, Duffy says, look, this is a quote, New York State's congestion pricing is a slap in the face to working-class Americans and small business owners. Okay. The toll program leaves drivers without any free highway alternative.

instead takes more money from working people to pay for a transit system and not highways it's backwards and unfair unquote so i knew that they were going to find i thought it might be an environmental thing uh that they found the EPA getting involved but they found a law that says you cannot toll uh locally if the feds provided money to build some of the road. And they have, obviously, in New York City, there's a lot of federal money in the infrastructure. And that's what happened. So, you know, it's going to get worse. If Hogle fires Adams, Trump is going to come in because Trump made a deal with Adams. I think it's more than Adams cooperating in hunting down criminal migrants. But I don't know, as I've said to

on WABC, I don't report, so I don't guess, I don't speculate, I don't do that. And I don't know the extent of this deal. I think the deal is verbal, so there's nothing in writing I can get. But clearly, Donald Trump ordered his Justice Department to drop the bribery charges against Adams in return for his cooperation on migrants and something else. Now, if I ever get to something else, I'll report it so fast that people's, a blink, I'll report it. Anyway, this whole thing makes New York City and State look terrible because it is now a war between the President of the United States and this state. And California's got the same situation, but California Newsom, he knows he's in, and he's out of there next year.

And I don't think Hogle's going to be reelected either. Now, as for, the interesting thing to me about Adams is that it was not, there was not outrage in the Democratic Party or on the far left after he was indicted for bribery. They didn't care about that. I never heard any outrage. Did you? If you did, let me know, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. I didn't hear it. I didn't hear Schumer and these people go, oh, this is terrible.

Even though it was soft, you know, the charges against Adams are soft. I think he did it. I absolutely think he did it. With, you know, prosecutorial discretion, you didn't have to bring those charges. Anyway, it was only after Adams' out. aligned himself with Trump in the migrant situation that the progressives who control this state, so we got to get this guy. And now, Hockel, she is in that zone. We are watching it closely.