President Donald Trump and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will meet at the White House on Friday, Bloomberg News reported.
Bloomberg said a stalled Northeast natural gas pipeline will be at the top of the agenda.
“She’s coming in tomorrow morning at nine o’clock to meet me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
Trump said he would discuss reviving the construction of the Constitution Pipeline with Hochul.
The president said the pipeline could save New York and New England families as much as $5,000 on energy costs.
Trump did not mention the Constitution Pipeline by name, but Bloomberg said that Trump has made it clear that he wants to revive the project.
Developer Williams Cos. scrapped the pipeline in 2020 after New York blocked the project over state water quality concerns.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in office at the time. Hochul was Cuomo’s lieutenant governor.
Williams CEO Alan Armstrong told Barron’s this week that he was not interested in moving forward on the project unless governors of Northeastern states signed off on the plan.
The company lost $400 million pursuing Constitution after New York’s opposition, he said.
Armstrong separately made clear he supports the Trump’s bid to get the pipeline completed.
The pipeline would transport Appalachian natural gas roughly 120 miles from Pennsylvania to New York.
“New York has held it up for years,” Trump said Thursday. “Families in New York and Connecticut and New England are going to save $5,000 a family — think of that — because right now they have the highest energy prices maybe in the world.”
“It’s just a simple pipeline going to an area that wants it,” Trump added. “I hope we don’t have to use the extraordinary powers of the federal government to get it done, but if we have to, we will.”
Trump and Hochul are also expected to discuss New York’s controversial congestion pricing program.
Trump has withdrawn federal approval for the toll program and Hochul has threatened to sue.
Hochul on Thursday told reporters that she had reached out to Trump “to carry on the conversation that we had in the Oval Office a couple weeks ago” when the two had met to discuss congestion pricing.
“I have a lot on my agenda. We talked about infrastructure, Penn Station, we talked about — he knows I want to talk about congestion pricing again. I want to talk about our concerns about energy in light of the tariffs,” Hochul said. “We will have quite an agenda. I look forward to the meeting tomorrow morning.”
