In the District

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman issued the following statement on Republicans’s attempt to preempt New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act: 

New York, N.Y. - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman presented a $250,000 federal grant to Grand Street Settlement for their new Justice Mentoring Initiative. Grand Street serves over 18,500 New Yorkers throughout the city through early childhood, youth, and older adult programs. The federal funding that Rep. Goldman secured will allow Grand Street to pilot the Justice Mentoring Initiative, a program that will engage a cohort of high school-aged youth in a nine-month long program at Grand Street’s Best Buy Teen Tech Center in order to deter them from becoming involved in crime. Participants will plan community-wide events for their peers, engage in one-on-one mentorship, and learn skills in coding, Photoshop, and music production.

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Dan Goldman is calling for $15 million in funding for the African Burial Ground National Monument to be included in the Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The funding would support the planning, design, and construction of the African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center as an expansion of the existing monument. The African Burial Ground houses 15,000 intact skeletal remains of enslaved and free Africans who lived and worked in colonial New York, as well as nearly 8,000 personal handwritten messages. Despite the site's astounding archaeological significance, it currently lacks a museum and educational center to properly contextualize its findings.

New York, N.Y. - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) presented a $250,000 Community Project Funding Award to Avenues for Justice (AFJ), an alternative-to-incarceration program that aims to help keep young people out of the criminal justice system.

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) is reiterating his demand that the Trump Administration provide answers about its decision to pause leases for five large scale offshore wind projects currently under construction, including the Empire Wind 1 project in New York. The administration cited national security concerns as the rationale for the pause; in December, Rep. Goldman demanded a classified hearing detailing these concerns by the week of January 5th. As of today, neither the Department of Interior (DOI) nor the Department of Defense (DOD) has scheduled a briefing or provided access to the classified materials. While a judge today granted a preliminary injunction that allows construction on the project to continue, the threat to the project still remains. The Trump administration has made clear it will use any means necessary, including citing national security risks, to prevent offshore wind projects like Empire Wind 1 from being completed.

“Department of Homeland Security spokesperson ‘Tricia from Ohio,’ is back to doing what she does best: gaslighting the American people. Her statement that the staffer ‘had no legal right to be in the United States’ is a bald-faced lie. In truth, the NYC Council employee was lawfully in the United States and properly authorized to work here.

“After a City Council staffer was detained by ICE yesterday while attending a routine immigration check-in, our offices immediately moved to coordinate with advocates at the New York Immigration Coalition and the outstanding lawyers at the New York Legal Assistance Group who filed an emergency habeas petition last night.

Washington, DC - U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (D-NY-10), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY-7), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Grace Meng (D-NY-6), Yvette Clarke (D-NY-9), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-12), Gregory Meeks (D-NY-5), and Paul Tonko (D-NY-20) sent a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul, New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, calling on the New York State Legislature to pass a group of immigration bills that will protect our immigrant neighbors, uphold constitutional rights, and reinforce New York State’s role as a check against unlawful federal overreach by the Trump Administration.