New York City Mayor Eric Adams pushed back on claims from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that cuts made to the Coast Guard by the Department of Government Efficiency are somewhat to blame for the Brooklyn Bridge ship crash on Saturday.

In a Sunday afternoon post on X, Schumer said he’s “fighting for answers about whether Trump and DOGE have impacted water traffic control.”

“We know they’ve been meddling with U.S. Coast Guard staffing,” Schumer wrote. “Trump relieved Admiral Linda Fagan as Commandant of the USCG, and that position is still vacant. And the hiring freeze has limited the ability for the USCG to staff up the Vehicle Traffic Service, that’s their traffic control operation that acts like Air Traffic Control but on water.”

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