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Speaker 1: According to Politico, the biggest public transit system in America

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Speaker 1: is facing ruin. Will Congress step in and save it?

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Speaker 1: After the coronavirus hit, New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority got

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Speaker 1: a four billion dollar bailout from Washington. They blew through it.

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Speaker 1: Now they're facing a ten billion dollar deficit, and they're

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Speaker 1: worried the three billion dollars the MTA gets from taxes

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Speaker 1: won't come through because the tax base has gone. Now

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Speaker 1: all options are supposedly on the table. Massive increases in fairs,

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Speaker 1: slashing the workforce, which means war with the union, slashing

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Speaker 1: the operating budget, slashing service. Even if Governor Cuomo takes

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Speaker 1: all these actions, they're still gonna be billions in the whole.

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Speaker 1: If New York Mass Transit fails, Liberals fear it will

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Speaker 1: lead to an economic crisis in the entire Northeast. So

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Speaker 1: New York politicians are begging the federal government for thirty

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Speaker 1: two billion dollars to keep the transit authority going. Democrats

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Speaker 1: who run the House are happy to spend whatever Andrew

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Speaker 1: Cuomo and Chuck you Schumer asked for, but Republicans not

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Speaker 1: so much. Why should the Republicans intervene. Northeast liberals have

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Speaker 1: spent every wakened moment for the last four years trashing Trump,

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Speaker 1: and now they come in hat in hand, begging for

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Speaker 1: billions to save the city. They are destroying the proper responses.

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Speaker 1: It's hold, we go pound sand and at a landfill.

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Speaker 1: Let them fix their problems themselves. They're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: save that city somehow, especially since their policies caused these problems.