NY legislative leaders suddenly reject MTA’s $68 billion capital plan

Two New York political leaders abruptly vetoed the MTA's $68 billion budget to fix mass transit.Although the MTA Board approved the five-year spending plan on Sept. 25, state Senate Majority Leader Andrew Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie sent the MTA a rejection letter on Christmas Eve, just a day before the plan would have been approved, according to Gothamist.
amNewYork Metro reached out multiple times to both Stewart-Cousins and Heastie to ask why they vetoed the plan but did