Republican Rep. Malliotakis urges Eric Adams to confront Biden on ALL surging crime and not just guns when he visits New York on Thursday after Psaki was eviscerated for mocking 'soft-on-crime' concerns

On Wednesday the lone New York City Republican in the U.S. Congress called on President Joe Biden to go beyond gun violence during his visit to the Big Apple, urging him to tackle 'all these crime issues' that have made residents wary and resulted in the deaths of multiple police officers.

Biden, 79, is heading to New York City on Thursday, where he'll meet with new Mayor Eric Adams and is expected to tour NYPD headquarters in downtown Manhattan.

He may also have to save face for his administration in front of law enforcement after White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was eviscerated earlier this week for 'laughing off' concerns over violent crime in America's urban centers.

Speaking to Fox Business on Wednesday morning, GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said she and her colleagues in NYC's Congressional delegation met with Adams on Tuesday to discuss the spike in crime ahead of Biden's trip.

'I told [Adams], President Biden is coming to talk about gun violence -- you need to talk about all the other issues, because it’s not just guns,' she told host Maria Bartiromo. 

Malliotakis referenced a recent knifing of a 22-year-old in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge, which she represents. 

'Somebody was stabbed to death in my district over the weekend, and you have all categories of crime, from rape, robbery, assault, and grand theft auto -- all increasing,' the lawmaker said.

'And so we need to address all these crime issues and give police the tools they need to do their job.'

The president visit comes at critical time for the nation's largest city. Last month crime shot up more than 38 percent across the 28-day period ending on January 30th, compared to the same point at the beginning of 2021.  

At NYPD headquarters, Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland will be meeting with elected leaders including Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, as well as law enforcement officials. 

They'll discuss how local officials are working to 'quickly take guns and repeat shooters off of our streets,' Psaki said at her Tuesday briefing. 

That would put him face-to-face with New York's police officers just days after the buried two of their own. Officers Wilbert Mora, 27, and Jason Rivera, 22, were shot when responding to a domestic disturbance call in Harlem. Mora's funeral is underway the day before Biden's visit. Rivera was buried after an emotional ceremony last week. 

It'll also be the first presidential visit to 1 Police Plaza since Barack Obama stopped there in 2011.

Then Biden, Garland, and NYC elected officials are expected to 'visit with community violence intervention leaders in Queens to talk about the community-led work to interrupt gun violence.'

According to the most recently available crime data of the week ending on January 30, city-wide reported rapes increased by a staggering 47.7 percent compared to the same week in 2021. 

Grand larceny rose in the same period by 39.6 percent, and robberies by 28.3 percent. 

Despite the sharp spike in major crimes, the president's press secretary appeared to laugh off news coverage of the violence and seemed to suggest Americans care more about 'what's happening in their daily lives.'

Speaking to podcast Pod Save America recently, Psaki compared coverage on some networks of Ukraine-Russia tensions to Fox News' 'Jeanine Pirro talking about soft-on-crime consequences.'

She added, 'I mean, what does that even mean?'

'What's scary about it is a lot of people watch that. They think that the president isn't doing anything to address people's safety in New York and that couldn't be further from the truth,' Psaki claimed. 

''People care more about what’s happening in their lives than what’s necessarily happening in every cable news chyron every day.' 

National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Patrick Yoes swiftly condemned her comments.

'I think it's wrong -- very wrong -- for Ms. Psaki to suggest that violent crime in our country is of no concern or to just laugh it off,' Yoes said in a statement. 

Republican lawmakers also pounced, with Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs writing on Twitter that her comments were 'completely out of touch.'

The House GOP tweeted: 'As violent crime continues to surge across America, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocks Americans discussing the “consequences” of Democrats'“soft-on-crime” policies.'