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President-elect Donald Trump said he’s on board for scrapping congestion pricing and lifting the cap on state and local tax deductions, The Post has learned.
In a Saturday night meeting with Republican members of New York’s House delegation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the incoming commander in chief agreed he would help try to nix the city’s first-in-the-nation congestion tax.
“He wants to kill it,” Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told The Post.
“He did agree it’s got to go,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said after leaving the meeting.
“So we’re going to work through how his administration can do so,” he added.
Trump, 78, also said he supported the Republican pols’ effort to raise a cap on the amount of state and local taxes New Yorkers can deduct from their federal taxes known as the SALT cap, the pols said.
“He’s fully on board with lifting the cap on SALT,” Lawler said.
“The president reiterated his support for lifting the cap on SALT and talking to us about the need to come up with a number and work through it and build consensus in the House,” he added.
“He said that he understands the plight of New Yorkers who are being abused by our mayor and our governor who treat them like ATMs, and he wants to provide SALT relief,” Malliotakis said.
“We need to work out what that number is going to be.”
The Republicans in the meeting said they didn’t expect they would be able to lift the cap, only raise it from its current amount of $10,000.
New York’s House Republicans are pushing for lifting the SALT cap as part of an upcoming legislative package that would also include a renewal of many of Trump’s signature tax cuts under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Trump’s comments come a week after the MTA started tolling drivers a phased-in $15 toll to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
A federal judge swatted down a last-ditch attempt to stop the toll from going into effect after several courts cleared other legal challenges in the run-up to its Jan. 3 start date.
Malliotakis and other members say they’re hopeful that the Federal Highway Administration under Trump could unravel the program’s authorization.
