As you heard extensively this morning, the MTA is in the most dire fiscal situation it has ever faced: the agency is literally going broke helping move New York. Even at the height of the pandemic, it continued to operate to serve essential workers, which contributed to its current, ominous financial state. Support from the federal government has come to-date in the form of $3.9 billion through the CARES Act; as you are aware, that funding has since been exhausted.
View full testimony here: PCAC Testimony at the NY State Senate Joint Public Hearing: Impact of COVID-19 on the MTA