| “Deeply MAGA.”
“An affront to constituents.”
“Vote him out.”
Month after month, Hudson Valley voters have been flooding the pages of local papers to blast Mike Lawler for raising costs while hardworking families at home struggle to make ends meet — from rubber-stamping Trump’s chaotic tariffs to doing nothing to stop Trump’s cost-spiking war of choice.
One constituent pointed to a local veteran who has been skipping meals due to skyrocketing gas prices since the start of Trump’s reckless war – a cost Lawler thinks is “absolutely worth it.”
“Calling yourself a ‘moderate’ while surrendering Congress’s most serious responsibility is not moderation. It’s abdication,” another voter from Mt. Kisco said.
Read the brutal hits for yourself:
Yonkers Times: I Know a Veteran Who Can’t Feed His Family
- I know of a military vet who can’t feed his family anymore. He served in Jordan and Afghanistan, was recently discharged, and is now on a fixed income. Since the Iran War began, for dinner he and his wife either finish their 3 kids leftovers, or if there are no leftovers, they don’t have dinner that evening.
- Skyrocketing gas prices combined with higher utility bills and soaring food costs account for this distressing situation.
- Mike Lawler supports this president and his war of choice despite the [war] increasing the economic hardships thousands of families in our district are facing.
- I’m not surprised. Congressman Lawler by voting for the One Big Beautiful Bill (which he now refers to as the Working Families Tax Cut Act because it’s so unpopular), is harming veterans by capping Medicaid, reducing SNAP food assistance, and introducing work requirements for benefits. It potentially threatens health coverage nationwide for over 260,000 veterans and limits access to care for those relying on community health services, which is needed now more than ever.
- Whether through legislation to benefit the wealthy or by necessity to pay for his and Trump’s war of choice, Mike Lawler is ignoring his constituents’ needs. We must vote him out and elect someone who will fight to lower our costs and not raise them.
Mt. Kisco Bedford Times: Constituent calls Lawler out of step with district
- I attended Congressman Mike Lawler’s town hall in Yorktown last month. His positions are deeply MAGA and frankly an affront to the constituents of Congressional District 17.
- His dismissal of the War Powers Act — arguing it’s unnecessary because prior presidents ignored it — is simply inexcusable. Since Trump’s term began, military excursions have unfolded across multiple countries with little congressional oversight. Spending one billion dollars a day on the war in Iran is not a rounding error; it is a crushing financial burden on millions of American taxpayers that demands real accountability.
- It is clear that Mike Lawler’s positions are fully aligned with MAGA ideology. The one thing he may actually be correct about is his own rapidly diminishing chance of re-election this fall.
Mt. Kisco Bedford Times: Lawler sides against Congress on war authority
- Congress is supposed to decide when this country goes to war. That’s not a procedural nicety — it’s the Constitution, designed to prevent exactly what we’re watching now: a president initiating sustained military action while the public is left to guess at the objective, the legal authority, the cost, and the endgame.
- Representative Mike Lawler (NY-17) opposed the Massie–Khanna War Powers effort aimed at restoring Congress’s role regarding military action against Iran. In plain English: when Congress tried to assert its constitutional authority, Lawler chose to step aside.
- If Rep. Lawler believes this conflict is justified, he should stop hiding behind statements and support a formal authorization for the use of military force — a vote on the record — and explain to his constituents what “success” means, what the exit strategy is, and what this will cost in American lives and taxpayer dollars. If he won’t vote to authorize it, then he has no business helping the president wage it.
- Calling yourself a “moderate” while surrendering Congress’s most serious responsibility is not moderation. It’s abdication. It concentrates the war power in the hands of one person and turns elected representatives into spectators — except when it’s time to provide political cover.
- NY-17 deserves a congressman who defends checks and balances when it counts, not one who rubber-stamps them away.
Yonkers Times: Congressman Lawler votes for suffering
- When it comes to healthcare, food assistance, research, compassion, foreign aid, and war, he keeps choosing policies that deepen our suffering instead of relieving it. That is a betrayal of the people.
- Healthcare: Lawler chooses suffering. Lawler voted for massive cuts that threaten Medicare and Medicaid. These programs are life saving. They are the difference between security and medical debt, and between treatment and health decline and death.
- Food Security: Lawler chooses suffering. Lawler’s vote to slash food assistance is cruel. Thousands of households in his district depend on SNAP. According to the New York Health Foundation, food insecurity in suburban areas such as NY-17, reached a five-year high in 2025-26, surpassing pandemic year levels.
- Foreign aid, Lawler chooses suffering. Lawler has backed policies that weaken America’s ability to respond to humanitarian crises and save lives abroad. Aid programs provide food, medicine, disaster relief, and support for communities that are devastated by poverty and disease. According to the Impact Counter estimates, USAID funding cuts more than 762,000 people have died as a result of those cuts, including more than 500,000 children.
- War, Lawler chooses suffering. In June 2025, President Trump declared that U.S. military strikes had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. Therefore, Lawler’s failure to prioritize diplomacy over war was reckless and the outcome was tragic. When leaders support reckless escalation, civilians pay the price not only in rising prices and debt, but more importantly in injury and death.
- Lawler has deliberately voted for us to suffer. It’s time for the suffering to end. Vote Lawler out in November!
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