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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: 

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman and Nydia Velázquez and Senator Ron Wyden led 30 lawmakers in demanding answers from ICE and DHS about their ongoing use of Palantir-developed technologies to collect Americans’ personal data and fuel a mass surveillance ecosystem.

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 demanding answers and accountability from the Trump Administration following the revelation that it improperly used a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo to justify immigration court arrests. The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) extraordinary admission in federal court filings indicates that it relied on erroneous information to justify courthouse arrests conducted by ICE. In these filings, the DOJ acknowledges that an ICE memorandum from 2025 “does not and has never applied to civil immigration enforcement actions in or near Executive Office for Immigration Review” immigration courts, which includes 26 Federal Plaza.

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.

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Dan Goldman is leading 47 Democrats in calling on leadership of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security to include language in the Fiscal Year 2027 Homeland Security Appropriations bill that explicitly prohibits the use of funds for the seizure, collection, retention, or analysis of voting machines, equipment, or voter records. The push follows disturbing comments from President Trump and administration officials regarding the seizure of voting machines and federal takeover of elections, including a suggestion from President Trump that Republicans should “take over” elections and “nationalize the voting” in the United States. “We have serious and well-founded concerns about the Administration’s intention to illegally seize election infrastructure throughout this country, and believe it is our duty as Congress to act without hesitation,” wrote the lawmakers.

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Jerrold Nadler (NY-12) are demanding answers about the Trump Administration’s decision to reassign staff from the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP) to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The WTCHP is already facing severe staffing shortages; despite having the funding for 120 employees, it is currently operating with only 84. These shortages undermine the Program’s ability to provide timely services and care to beneficiaries and future enrollees; additional reassignments away from the Program will worsen these issues. The members are demanding a briefing from the administration on current operational status of the Program and the extent of the reassignments and the impact they will have on the WTCHP. Reps. Grace Meng (NY-06), Laura Gillen (NY-04), Ritchie Torres (NY-15), Gregory Meeks (NY-05), George Latimer (NY-16), Tom Suozzi (NY-03) also signed the letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) introduced the Real Courts, Rule of Law Act, legislation that would transition the nation's immigration court system into an independent judiciary. Currently, immigration judges are appointed by the Attorney General. As employees of the Department of Justice, immigration judges may be directed to adjudicate cases based on the policies and priorities of the governing administration.