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“As the Rolling Stones said, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.”
That’s what happened in Washington this week. The United States needed to avert an economy-crippling default on our debt that would have stopped checks to our seniors, benefits for our veterans, and hurt the U.S. dollar and Americans’ retirement savings. We also desperately needed to change the fiscal trajectory of our nation, which was spending too much, too fast.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) reacted to President Joe Biden’s calls for revenue increases to be a part of debt ceiling talks by stating that instead of increasing taxes, we should eliminate the green tax credits that are allowed to go to Chinese companies.
As New York City continues to scramble to find places for the hundreds of migrants arriving daily.
More than 300 asylum seekers are now being housed at a former school building on Staten Island. Moreover, while Mayor Eric Adams and his team have backed off on plans to use the gymnasiums of current schools for migrants, he is not ruling it out in the future.
Republican New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis pushed back against CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Wednesday after he claimed migrant crossings are virtually the same under President Joe Biden as they were under former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) alongside NYPD Deputy Chief Joseph Gulotta kicked off National Police Week by highlighting the dedication of police officers on Staten Island and across New York City during a press conference at the 121st Precinct stationhouse in Graniteville on Monday morning.
“We’re all here today because trade is all our livelihood,” John Atkins, president of Global Containers Terminal New York, said in his testimony at the U.S. House Committee of Ways and Means’ hearing in Staten Island on Tuesday.
Mayor Adams and several Staten Island elected officials are pushing for New York State policy to be amended to unlock U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding that New York City could use to upgrade its essential water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure.
Republican New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis suggested Wednesday that teachers unions used campaign donations to buy access that allowed them extensive influence in writing COVID-19 guidelines.
Borough President Vito Fossella called a stabbing at the Great Kills station of the Staten Island Railway (SIR) on Friday and other recent incidents of violent crime the direct result of the “turnstile concept of justice.”