Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted that the cameras crucial to the toll structure will remain in operation. "The cameras are staying on," she said.

Trump crowned himself in a celebratory post to Truth Social, in which the outer-borough-born mogul prematurely announced that tolls for traveling by car into the busiest parts of Manhattan were dead. "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED," he wrote. "LONG LIVE THE KING!"

The governor responded to the president’s midday order to shut down the congestion pricing toll with a defiant rebuke — setting up a first-of-its-kind showdown between Trump and Hochul, who had previously vowed to try to work with the untempered president.