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 the town’s first-in-the-nation congestion tax.
“He wants to kill it,” Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) informed The Submit.
“He did agree it’s got to go,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) mentioned after leaving the assembly.
“So we’re going to work through how his administration can do so,” 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 generally known as the SALT cap, the pols mentioned.
“He’s fully on board with lifting the cap on SALT,” Lawler mentioned.
“The president reiterated his support for lifting the cap on SALT and talking to us about the need to come up with a number and work through it and build consensus in the House,” he added.
“He said that he understands the plight of New Yorkers who are being abused by our mayor and our governor who treat them like ATMs, and he wants to provide SALT relief,” Malliotakis mentioned.
“We need to work out what that number is going to be.”
The Republicans within the assembly mentioned they didn’t anticipate they’d have the ability to carry 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 package deal that might additionally embody a renewal of lots of Trump’s signature tax cuts below 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 choose swatted down a last-ditch try and 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 below Trump might unravel this system’s authorization.
