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A Data Center Wanted to Expand Next to a Drinking Water Reservoir in His District. Nine Days Later, Mike Lawler Went on TV to Say the Rules Are the Problem.

A Data Center Wanted to Expand Next to a Drinking Water Reservoir in His District. Nine Days Later, Mike Lawler Went on TV to Say the Rules Are the Problem.

Orangetown's planning board unanimously halted a data center expansion near the Lake Tappan reservoir. New York then paused permits statewide. Lawler's response was a Fox Business hit about innovation and China — and he had already voted for a bill that would have banned states from writing AI rules at all.

Nick LaLota Told Long Island His Vote Protected Medicaid — and, in the Same Video, "I'll Always Be Honest With You." PolitiFact Rated It False.

Nick LaLota Told Long Island His Vote Protected Medicaid — and, in the Same Video, "I'll Always Be Honest With You." PolitiFact Rated It False.

The budget resolution LaLota voted for on February 25, 2025 doesn't contain the word Medicaid. It orders one committee to cut $880 billion — and 93% of that committee's spending is Medicaid. Four months later he voted for the bill that made the cuts real. 21,673 people in his district are projected to lose coverage by 2034.