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NEW YORK, NY -- Today at 2:30 p.m., Congressman Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) will hold a press conference at the Harlem State Office Building located at 163 West 125th Street at the corner of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. to introduce a slate of legislative priorities, aptly titled the Harlem Manifesto, that calls for the implementation of policies to end police brutality and stop the criminalization of African Americans and Latinos throughout communities around the nation.
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), was joined by several New York state and city elected officials in the district to announce the Harlem Manifesto, a series of legislative policies to urge for the end of police brutality and targeting of African Americans throughout the nation.
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.