MTA now ready to find $3B in savings after NYS budget falls short of massive $68K proposal: ‘Welcome the challenge’

It’s $3 billion in chump change. MTA honcho Janno Lieber isn’t sweating the mammoth state budget deal not giving the transit agency its full $68 billion ask for its ambitious capital plan. The deal leaves the plan with a $3 billion shortfall that Lieber contended Wednesday the MTA will, “in effect, self fund” by finding…