The Biden administration “rubber stamped” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s congestion tolls for Manhattan without requiring an environmental impact statement required by federal law, and President Donald Trump was right to cancel her plans, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“This was a tax on hardworking New Yorkers,” the New York Republican said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “Our first responders, restaurant workers, hospital workers, people who have to go in for a healthcare appointment, all would be slammed with this toll to enter the city center and the city in which they live.”

Trump is also right, she said, to reject funding “free luxury rooms for migrants” that Mayor Eric Adams has provided at a significant cost to taxpayers.

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