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The MTA has requested and received another extension to complete its $10 purchase of a 40-acre Port Jefferson Station property for a future LIRR train station, Suffolk County officials said Tuesday.

The Republican budget reconciliation bill pairs a package of $3.7 trillion in tax cuts skewed toward the wealthy and corporations with massive spending cuts in Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and other federal programs.

"Now, depending on where you’re going on Long Island, it requires three trains to get out there if you’re coming from New Jersey, for example," said Prophet, who believes Amtrak could be a gamechanger for potential Long Island visitors scared off by its jam-packed roadways.

Long Island’s two House Republicans — Reps.

In Elwood, a hamlet in the Town of Huntington, residents approved a $78,566,259 budget for the 2025-26 school year. The spending plan includes a 2.64% increase in the school property tax levy, higher than the district's state-imposed limit of 1.29%.

Hundreds of crew members and more than a dozen ships are already operating in the waters off the South Shore of Nassau to prepare the seabed with a rock layer to stabilize the 54 turbine foundations, which are being installed by the Netherlands-based vessel Thialf.