President-elect Donald Trump has expressed his support for eliminating the congestion pricing plan and removing the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions, the NY Post reports.

During a meeting with Republican representatives from New York at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday evening, Trump indicated that he would back efforts to halt the city’s congestion tax, which is the first of its kind in the nation.

“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) stated after the meeting.

“So we’re going to work through how his administration can do so,” he added.

Trump, 78, also expressed his support for the Republican lawmakers’ push to raise the SALT deduction cap, which currently limits the amount of state and local taxes New Yorkers can deduct from their federal taxes.

“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 continued.

“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 explained.

“We need to work out what that number is going to be.”

The Republican lawmakers in attendance acknowledged that while they might not be able to eliminate the cap entirely, they are hopeful that it can be raised from its current $10,000 limit.

New York’s Republican House members are pushing to lift the SALT cap as part of a broader legislative effort that could also include the renewal of many provisions from Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Trump’s remarks come just a week after the MTA introduced a phased-in $15 toll for vehicles entering Manhattan below 60th Street.

A federal judge rejected a last-minute attempt to block the toll from taking effect after several other legal challenges were dismissed leading up to its implementation on January 3.

Malliotakis and other lawmakers remain optimistic that the Federal Highway Administration under Trump could intervene and revoke the authorization for the toll program.

{Matzav.com}