During the 118th Congress and throughout the 119th session, it has been clear that Representative Mike Lawler has used his position not to serve the needs of the Lower Hudson Valley, but to advance the extreme MAGA Project 2025 agenda at the expense of his own constituents.
Time and again, Lawler has prioritized partisan politics over the real concerns of New Yorkers—rising costs, affordable health care, and common sense immigration reform.
Lawler’s voting record is out of step with our community’s values. He has voted to slash Medicaid and food assistance for millions of low-income Americans, to restrict reproductive freedom and voting rights, and to cut funding for education and programs that help working families.
Instead of focusing on lowering costs or improving health care, Lawler has pushed legislation that would raise health care costs for over 100 million Americans with pre-existing conditions, and roll back protections for women, workers and children.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a non-partisan forecasting office within the U.S. Congress released its newest estimates of the provisions of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that Lawler was the deciding vote on. This bill will result in $3.8 trillion in tax cuts and $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, and will cause 16 million people to lose their health insurance nationwide (1.5 million in New York). The high cost of these tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit high earners and business interests, will increase the federal deficit by $2.4 trillion.
On immigration, Lawler campaigned on securing the border, but he has failed to deliver solutions. Instead, he has supported divisive, conspiracy-driven bills that do nothing to fix our broken system, while voting against bipartisan proposals that could actually help make a difference. And now, to add to his divisive policies, he supports military intervention at home. He plays the “world-class hater” Steve Miller’s inciteful tune “insurrection”.
He has also dismissed the rule of law and defended his party’s MAGA figurehead, even after felony convictions, despite previously claiming he would not support Trump if convicted. And since then, Trump has pardoned one criminal after another (including a major online drug dealer) and Lawler remains silent. And while Lawler is silent on pardoning criminals he wasn’t silent at his Mahopac Town Hall stating that he supports the decision to put National Guard and Marines on the streets of LA against the will of the Governor and Mayor, to intimidate peaceful protesters.
Lawler follows Trump’s lead by using, and continuing to use, the Jewish community as a prop. He, like Trump, states his unwavering support for Israel and his vows against antisemitism without speaking up against domestic white nationalists like Steve Bannon and Elon Musk.
We deserve much better than Mike (Go Along to Get Along) Lawler’s record of failed leadership and misplaced priorities.
Sincerely,
Mark A. Lieberman
Yorktown, NY
