President-elect Donald Trump mentioned he’s on board for scrapping congestion pricing and lifting the cap on state and native tax deductions, The Submit has discovered.
In a Saturday night time assembly with Republican members of New York’s Home delegation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the incoming commander in chief agreed he would assist attempt to nix town’s first-in-the-nation congestion tax.
“He needs to kill it,” Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) instructed The Submit.
“He did agree it’s acquired to go,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) mentioned after leaving the assembly.
“So we’re going to work by way of how his administration can accomplish that,” he added.
Trump, 78, additionally mentioned he supported the Republican pols’ effort to lift a cap on the quantity of state and native taxes New Yorkers can deduct from their federal taxes often known as the SALT cap, the pols mentioned.
“He’s totally on board with lifting the cap on SALT,” Lawler mentioned.
“The president reiterated his help for lifting the cap on SALT and speaking to us about the necessity to provide you with a quantity and work by way of it and construct consensus within the Home,” he added.
“He mentioned that he understands the plight of New Yorkers who’re being abused by our mayor and our governor who deal with them like ATMs, and he needs to supply SALT aid,” Malliotakis mentioned.
“We have to work out what that quantity goes to be.”
The Republicans within the assembly mentioned they didn’t anticipate they might be capable of raise the cap, solely increase it from its present quantity of $10,000.
New York’s Home Republicans are pushing for lifting the SALT cap as a part of an upcoming legislative bundle that may additionally embody a renewal of lots of Trump’s signature tax cuts beneath the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Trump’s feedback come every week after the MTA began tolling drivers a phased-in $15 toll to enter Manhattan beneath sixtieth Road.
A federal decide swatted down a last-ditch try to cease the toll from going into impact after a number of courts cleared different authorized challenges within the run-up to its Jan. 3 begin date.
Malliotakis and different members say they’re hopeful that the Federal Freeway Administration beneath Trump might unravel this system’s authorization.
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