Zeldin, who is Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, told the gathering of state Republicans at The Mayflower Hotel that "the next two years that are ahead of us as New Yorkers is going to require us to recruit the best possible candidates we can up and down this ballot, and it starts with the local elections."

President-elect Donald Trump headed to Washington Saturday to kick off days of pageantry heralding his second inauguration as president, four years after he departed the city under the shadow of an attack by his supporters on the Capitol.