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He shows how the party is falling short, but he has the wrong solutions.
Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who just won New York's Democratic mayoral primary, is a charismatic, smart and effective campaigner with whom I disagree. His campaign tapped into the same economic discontent that powered Donald Trump's rise, and his victory should serve as a loud wake-up call for the Democratic Party.
The New York Democrat says that the parties should work together on immigration policy.
Rep. Tom Suozzi is a longtime Democrat. But that doesn’t mean he’s solely focused on President Donald Trump. He thinks his party needs to lean in on messaging for the future, not just on opposing the current president.
The New York Democrat is doing things the ‘Suozzi way’ in a district Donald Trump carried
Tom Suozzi is worried about his party.
“The Democratic brand is broken on a national level,” the New Yorker said recently. “What do Democrats stand for? People don’t really know.”
The answer, in Suozzi’s mind, is to focus on economic issues and to relentlessly pitch themselves to voters. “We have to get back to the basic message of rebuilding the middle class in America,” he said.
The Trump administration has gutted the agency overseeing the World Trade Center Health Program, a move advocates say will wreak havoc on the program’s operations and bring critical operations to a standstill.
All four congressional representatives serving Nassau and Suffolk counties forged a mostly bipartisan front at a breakfast event Friday, teaming up on local tax issues but disagreeing on funding cuts by DOGE.
Reps. Nick LaLota (R-Amityville), Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), Andrew Garbarino (R-Bayport) and Lauren Gillen (D-Rockville Centre) called once again on their fellow representatives to nix the controversial SALT tax cap.