Mayor Eric Adams isn’t throwing the governor under the bus for her abrupt decision to stop congestion pricing from taking effect this month.

It’s a decision that was made without a backup plan to replace the money that would have gone to the MTA.

“She made a decision,” Adams said at his weekly question-and-answer conference Tuesday. “We need to support the governor.”

Adams said he had privately heard about Gov. Kathy Hochul’s reservations about congestion pricing before her announcement last week. 

“The governor spoke with me for about two weeks out, sharing her thoughts,” he said. “When she made the final determination, we spoke that evening and I said, ‘Governor, whatever I can do to assist, these are difficult times.’”

Adams’ remarks follow those from Hochul, who on Monday discussed the pushback against a $15 toll she was hearing from New Yorkers.

“I don’t think New Yorkers, based on what I’ve heard from people all over the city and the advocates and the people who are deeply concerned [about] what it’ll do to our economy, that a $15 toll at this time is too much,” Hochul said Monday.

Hochul maintained that critical MTA projects, such as elevators at stations, will still get funding from somewhere else. However, the MTA chairman on Monday said he was scaling back plans without a source of revenue identified.

“To assume that the only funding source had to be congestion pricing shows a lack of imagination about understanding other opportunities to fund these projects,” Hochul said. “I’m committed to these projects.”

Throughout the planning process, Adams had consistently raised some concerns and questions about the effect of congestion pricing.

“We had to get it right. We could not balance it on the backs of working-class people,” Adams said to reporters Tuesday.

This is in contrast to some officials in his administration who’ve given full support to congestion pricing — a difference of opinion that Adams said he welcomes.

“I don’t want robots in my administration,” he said. “I want people to respectfully share their thoughts and their opinions.”

As long as they remember who’s boss.

“The mayor’s name is Eric Adams,” he said.