ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump Friday over New York’s increasing need for federal aid for mass transit and infrastructure, even as Hochul’s Democratic Party takes a harder line against the Republican president.

Gov. Hochul's spokesperson said "energy policy" was on the agenda of Friday's meeting at the White House with President Trump.

Try, try again – if you didn’t succeed in your last Oval Office meeting. President Trump and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul failed to reach a formal agreement on congestion pricing Friday, according to a spokesperson for the governor who nonetheless called the high-stakes White House meeting “productive.