Gov. Kathy Hochul is poised to officially resurrect congestion pricing with a $9 base toll during a Thursday announcement – a move that drew swift outrage from the hated toll program’s opponents.

Hochul’s congestion pricing revamp – which was confirmed by multiple sources – would lower the $15 toll on cars entering Manhattan below 60th Street originally slated to begin in June, before the governor put it on an indefinite “pause.”

The governor’s office had eyed an even-lower toll of $7, sources said, but doing so would trigger a lengthy, potentially congestion pricing-killing, environmental review.

“They felt like $9 is where they could land,” one source said.

Sources said Hochul is eyeing increasing the base toll – which can go as high as $23, as set by a past environmental review – within the first three years. 

In a statement, the governor’s office said Hochul paused congestion pricing in the first place because a daily $15 toll would be too much for hard-working New Yorkers in a tight economy. 

“Tomorrow, the Governor will announce the path forward to fund mass transit, unclog our streets and improve public health by reducing air pollution,” the statement Wednesday read.

The move, first reported by Gothamist, comes after advocates for the controversial program pushed Hochul to revive it before Donald Trump, who has promised to “terminate” congestion pricing during his first week in office, is inaugurated as the 47th president in January.

Doing so would make it more difficult for Trump’s future administration to kill congestion pricing, advocates argued.

But opponents, even some of Hochul’s fellow Democrats, lambasted her double reversal.

“I can’t believe Hochul put congestion pricing to bed and brought it back,” said Vito Fossella, a Republican and borough president for Staten Island. “It stinks. You wonder why people are cynical of elected officials? This is exhibit A.”

Fossella said he spoke to Mike Mulgrew, president of the powerful United Federation of Teachers union, about continuing a high-profile lawsuit to block congestion pricing while they urge Trump to kill it.

Many local union leaders aside from Mulgrew oppose congestion pricing as a drain on their workers.

“I don’t think we should pay anything. No way!” said Harry Nespoli, head of the Municipal Labor Committee representing all city government workers. “We’re city workers, we have to go to work.”

Jim Brosi, president of Uniformed Firefighters Officers Association, called for a congestion pricing exception for first responders – an offering that wasn’t extended in the toll’s first go-round.

“Congestion pricing will compromise staffing in the FDNY,” he said. “The disproportionate impact on members assigned to inside the congestion zone will cause a rapid drain of senior officers and firefighters which could create a significant safety risk for all New Yorkers. ”

Upstate New York Democrat Rep. Pat Ryan — who last week won reelection in the battleground 18th Congressional District — cozied up to Hochul during the 2024 campaign, but was quick to put the governor on blast over her decision to revive the toll. 

He argued in a lengthy X thread that his constituents, including NYPD officers, in the Hudson Valley who commute would get gouged by the “MTA tax.”

“Here’s the problem: this plan isn’t – and can’t be – just about NYC,” he wrote.

“You simply cannot put a tax on the backs of Hudson Valley families with zero plan to use the additional revenue to actually bolster service in the Hudson Valley.”

The Post reported in August that Hochul was considering proposing a lower toll — after the November election.

Her stunning last-minute pause of the congestion pricing plan — other than answering opponents’ prayers — created a major fiscal problem for the MTA, which had been depending on its $15 billion to fund a slew of projects.

It’s unclear if the reduced toll amount will affect how the MTA fills the hole left by taking away congestion pricing revenue in its current five-year capital plan.

Newly reelected Republican Hudson Valley Rep. Mike Lawler, who is eyeing a run for governor, said reviving congestion pricing would impose a massive tax on working families and commuters.

“Governor Hochul is trying to pick the pockets of New Yorkers to bail out the corrupt MTA’s waste, fraud, and abuse, and that’s shameful,” he said.