By the time voters go to the polls next year, they’ll also likely be paying tolls to drive into Manhattan.

“We don’t want to overburden working class New Yorkers,” Mayor Eric Adams said about congestion pricing. “But those who are just driving for convenience, whatever the price is, they need to pay that price.”

With supporters like this, congestion pricing may be a tough sell politically.

Few drivers will be spared the $15 daytime toll that an MTA panel proposed and that may have political repercussions around the region.

“To have to now pay $15 to be able to get into some of the critical parts of Manhattan is going to put definitely a hardship on many of my constituents as well as constituents across parts of Brooklyn,” Councilwoman Selvena Brooks-Powers, who chairs the transportation committee.

Brooks-Powers is a Democrat who represents a district in southeast Queens, around JFK Airport, where transportation options are limited to buses and the Long Island Rail Road.

“Many times voters do vote with their kitchen table issues front at mind and so when they’re feeling that pinch, that becomes a real issue for them to take into consideration when they go into the voting booth, there’s no question about that,” she said.

That is a bipartisan belief.

“This will be a problem for anyone who supports this in the next election, certainly we’re gonna play this out in the courts both with potentially our own lawsuits from Staten Island and lawsuits we can support from our neighbors in New Jersey,” said Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli, a Staten Island Republican.

Meanwhile, Gov. Kathy Hochul remarked on the benefits of congestion pricing to air quality, traffic and transit.

“I believe we’ll be a model for the nation without creating an undue financial burden because we have public transportation at a very affordable cost for those families that are in need,” Hochul said.

“It’s great to see the governor standing firm on this,” Julie Tighe, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said.

It’s how she thinks politicians should be talking about congestion pricing — highlighting the benefits to the majority of people who take mass transit to commute into Manhattan.

“We have already been getting our supporters out there mobilizing and it is amazing how many people actually support it,” Tighe said.

The MTA board must give final approval to congestion pricing before it goes into effect by this May.