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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) has joined two of her congressional colleagues from New Jersey in reintroducing bills to curb NYC congestion pricing.
Last week, Malliotakis along with Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) submitted bills that would impact the MTA’s controversial tolling plan.
After four years of towering inflation, some Republican lawmakers are seeking to index major tax breaks to inflation as they begin crafting major fiscal policy legislation.
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.