Press Releases
New York City, NY – RepresentativeAdriano Espaillat (NY-13) led a bipartisan letter to request relief for public transit agencies around the nation and urged for the support of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) request for $3.9 billion to maintain operations through 2020.
NEW YORK, NY – Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), along with Reps. Nydia Velázquez and José E. Serrano is leading nearly 40 of his colleagues calling on Vice President Mike Pence, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles P. Rettig to ensure access to vital information and forms through the Economic Impact Payments (EIP) web portal for millions of non-English speakers.
NEW YORK, NY – U.S. Reps. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Grace Meng (D-NY) join efforts to call for a key food assistance program to include hot food during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a letter they led to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, the lawmakers urged the agency to allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries to purchase hot food from retailers for the duration of the coronavirus crisis. Currently, SNAP benefits do not cover hot food.
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) released the following statement on federal funding allocated to 15 health care centers in New York's 13th congressional district totaling more than $21 million dollars to provide care and assistance during the ongoing efforts to address the coronavirus.
NEW YORK, NY - Representatives Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Jesús "Chuy" García (IL-04), along with 49 of their colleagues led a letter to House and Senate leadership today urging them to include $100 billion for emergency rental assistance in the next emergency stimulus package to help people stay in their homes. A comparable provision was included in the COVID-19 stimulus bill drafted by the House, but it did not make it into the final CARES Act.
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) led members of the New York City Congressional Delegation to issue the following statement regarding the field hospital in Central Park operated by Samaritan's Purse. Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's Purse, has a long history of anti-LGBTQ+ and transphobic remarks, and the organization's call for volunteers to provide assistance amid COVID-19 insists that healthcare volunteers adhere to the organization's Statement of Faith, including homophobic language.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) applauded passage of historic Families and Workers-First legislation, which will now go to the President's desk for his signature.
Watch video of Rep. Espaillat's remarks on the U.S. House floor in support of the CARES Act.
NEW YORK, NY – Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) released the following statement on his efforts calling for federal support to immigrant communities as part of the economic recovery stimulus package due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We must put meaningful resources into the pockets of those hardest hit by the coronavirus. However, the current economic stimulus proposal is limited to one-time cash payments that exclude immigrant taxpayers who do not have a social security number, which will have an immediate impact on their citizen children and spouses," said Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13).
NEW YORK, NY – Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, calls for federal support of public transit agencies around the nation to be included in the COVID-19 economic recovery package.
NEW YORK, NY – Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement calling for all American citizens and legal permanent residents to return home from abroad as the global coronavirus pandemic continues to spread.