Over the past week, more than a dozen business interests have joined National Grid in backing the Northeast Supply Enhancement project, or NESE, a controversial pipeline championed by President Donald Trump that would carry gas underwater from New Jersey into New York City and Long Island. The groups, mostly based on Long Island, have submitted letters to the state utility regulator with similar — and sometimes identical — language in support of the pipeline.

A Bronx charity that failed to distribute hundreds of thousands of dollars that it raised for fire victims received $300,000 in new government grants this spring, records show.

We’ve been keeping a close eye on this particular organization, the Bronx Community Foundation. In January, we reported that it had failed to spend nearly $400,000 it received for the victims of the devastating Twin Parks apartment fire, which killed 17 Bronxites in 2022. For three years in a row, it spent more on consultants and overhead than on charitable giving.

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from states and localities that have enacted “cashless bail policies.” The order instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi to compile a list of jurisdictions that have “substantially eliminated” their cash bail systems, which require criminal defendants who can’t afford court-imposed collateral to sit in jail while awaiting trial.

The administration could move to suspend or terminate those jurisdictions’ federal grants and contracts, the order said.

Trump signaled that he has New York in his sights, even though the state allows cash bail for almost all of the offenses the order describes.