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Andrew Cuomo: “The governor controls [the MTA].”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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Andrew Cuomo EXPOSES The REAL Reason New York Is FAILING

Published | Video Starts at 03:52

Is that the governor or is it the mayor? Like, who controls that? Yeah, it's a. It's a large board. I think it's a board of like 16. But The governor controls [the MTA]. The mayor has appointments, but the governor controls. You're exactly right. Jumping fares don't hold me to the exact numbers, but we lose about as much money in fair jumping as we collected with congestion pricing, so it's. (03:52–03:57)

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Asserts that the governor has control over the MTA.

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