President-elect Donald Trump has said he supports abolishing congestion pricing and lifting caps on state and local tax deductions, The Post has learned.
Speaking Saturday night at the resort of Mar-a-Lago, Florida, with Republican members of New York's House of Representatives delegation, the next commander-in-chief agreed to help repeal the nation's first urban congestion charge.
“He's trying to kill it,” Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) told the Post.
“He agreed it had to be called off,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said after the meeting.
“So we're going to look at how his administration can do that,” he added.
The 78-year-old president also said he supports Republican Paul's effort to increase the maximum amount of state and local taxes (SALT Cap) that New York residents can deduct from their federal taxes, according to Paul's.
“He fully agrees with eliminating the SALT cap,” Lawlor said.
“The President reiterated his support for eliminating the SALT cap and spoke to us about the need to come up with numbers and work through them and build consensus in the House,” he added.
“We understand the plight of New Yorkers who are being abused by a mayor and governor who treat New Yorkers like ATMs, and we want to provide SALT relief,” Malliotakis said in a statement.
“We need to figure out what those numbers are.”
Republicans at the meeting said they did not expect to eliminate the cap, only raising it from the current amount of $10,000.
House Republicans in New York are pushing to eliminate the SALT cap as part of an upcoming legislative package that also includes renewing many of Trump's signature tax cuts under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
President Trump's comments come a week after the MTA began imposing a phased-in $15 toll on motorists below 60th Street in Manhattan.
A federal judge blocked a final attempt to block the toll from taking effect after multiple courts cleared other legal challenges ahead of the toll's Jan. 3 start date.
Malliotakis and others said they were hopeful that the Federal Highway Administration under the Trump administration would be able to figure out the project's approval.
