The U.S. Department of Transportation is withdrawing its support for New York City's controversial congestion pricing plan and will discuss with the state and stakeholders how to end the program, the agency announced Wednesday.

The department released a letter from Secretary Sean Duffy it said it sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul regarding its decision to "terminate" approval of the congestion pricing pricing program, which it had originally granted on Nov. 21 under the Biden administration.

Duffy said the congestion pricing program is beyond the scope of the approval for a "Value Pricing Pilot Program" authorized by Congress, in part, because it appears to be "driven primarily by the need to raise revenue for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) system as opposed to the need to reduce congestion."

DOT boss Duffy said his department would work with New York state officials to "discuss the orderly cessation of toll operations under this terminated pilot project." It's unclear if the federal government succeeds in killing congestion pricing, when that would happen.