Thomas R. Suozzi D

BACKGROUND

• Suozzi, 62, is running on the Democratic Party line in the general election. He served in Congress for six years before leaving to run unsuccessfully for New York State governor in 2022. He won back his old seat in a special election earlier this year to replace George Santos, who was expelled from Congress last December. 
• He served eight years as Nassau County executive, ending in 2009, and eight years as mayor of Glen Cove, ending in 2001. 
• Suozzi holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a law degree from Fordham University. 

ISSUES

• Suozzi said a focus will be on “fixing” immigration, which he said includes securing the border, changing a “broken asylum system” that is being abused by organized human smugglers and modernizing the admissions process. 
• Suozzi said he wants to restore New Yorkers’ ability to deduct state and local taxes from their federal returns, a deduction capped at $10,000 by the former Trump administration.
• He said he wants to bring back money to the district, pointing out his success in doing so for the Long Island Sound and the Grumman groundwater plume.