NEW YORK – President Donald Trump is casting a long shadow over New York as he begins to assert unprecedented control over his old home state.
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is locked in a power struggle with billions on the line as Trump moves to dismantle a new toll into Manhattan. The president, meanwhile, has threatened to cripple some of the city’s most powerful institutions unless they comply with his policy agenda.
Columbia University offered a laundry list of concessions Friday after the White House withheld $400 million in funding over its handling of campus protests. A day earlier, Trump announced that Paul Weiss, a Democratic-aligned law firm in Manhattan, would abandon its diversity initiatives and perform pro bono work for the administration.
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Trump had threatened
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