Trump tells NY Republicans he wants to raise SALT cap, ‘kill’ congestion pricing: ‘It’s got to go’

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.

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