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President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has elevated the problem of wasteful spending from think-tank white papers to a national cover story. With $36 trillion in national debt — more than $300,000 per taxpayer — there’s a lot of spending to slash.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) said she had a “productive” meeting with incoming President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.
The congresswoman said she, along with a contingent of other Republican House members, discussed a variety of topics with Trump, including state and local tax (SALT) deductions, congestion pricing, the World Trade Center Health Program, and more, ahead of “the upcoming reconciliation package.”
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis challenged Democrats to help House Republicans increase the state and local tax deduction as she blamed them for overtaxing New York residents in the first place.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R – Staten Island/South Brooklyn) handed out Holtermann’s Charlotte Russe cakes on the steps of our nation’s Capitol building today, another step in the feud between Staten Islanders and ‘The View’ host Whoopi Goldberg.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) served up Staten Island’s finest charlotte russe cakes on Capitol Hill Wednesday in a sweet show of support for Holtermann’s Bakery – a week after Whoopi Goldberg accused the 146-year-old pastry shop of political bias.
In a display of bipartisan unity, elected leaders from across New York City gathered by the foot of the Verrazano Bridge for a rally against the proposed reinstatement of congestion pricing on Nov. 12.
The coalition, led by recently-reelected Democratic state Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, and including U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, Council Member Joe Borelli, and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, voiced their strong opposition to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to proceed with congestion pricing.
With Election Day in the rearview mirror, we are seeing the political cynicism of Gov. Hochul in full bloom.
Back in June, Governor Hochul surprised the political world, the media and New Yorkers when she “indefinitely paused” her congestion-pricing plan.
BROOKLYN/STATEN ISLAND - DAYS AFTER A STATE SENATOR URGED NY GOV. HOCHUL to implement congestion pricing, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-11) on Tuesday, Nov. 12, joined a bipartisan group of local elected officials united against the potential return of congestion pricing. The group pointed out that President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to terminate the program during his first week back in office in January.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is looking to revive a planned congestion toll in Manhattan before President-elect Donald Trump takes office – but critics want to make sure the controversial plan stays dead.