SALT Debate Has NYC’s Only GOP Tax Writer Caught in the Middle

Nicole Malliotakis is a Trump-endorsed Republican and among the lawmakers seeking to hike a $10,000 cap on deductions for state and local taxes.

That’s why she irked some colleagues by voting against a measure, pushed by Democrats, to raise the limit to $60,000 at the June markup of the GOP Ways and Means panel’s marquee tax package.

Fellow New York Republican Rep. Nick LaLota called her vote “disappointing.”

The Staten Island lawmaker now finds herself weighing the needs of the SALT Caucus that she co-leads with the wants of her colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee. First elected in ...