Press Releases
Gillibrand Demands Answers From HHS On Mass Firings At HRSA That Imperil Primary Care and Maternal Health
New York Has Over 4,300 HRSA Health Care And Service Delivery Sites So Far In FY2025, HRSA Has Awarded Over $256 Million In Funding To Health Programs And Facilities In New York Firings Include Workers Who Oversee The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline, Which...
Gillibrand Presses Social Security Commissioner on Benefit Portal Malfunctions, Planned Firings of SSA Tech Workers
Lawmakers Send Letter Amidst Widespread Website Outages, Benefit Disruptions Senate Special Committee on Aging Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand wrote to Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek to demand that the Social Security Administration (SSA) address...
Gillibrand Joins 178 Colleagues In Introducing Bill To Raise Federal Minimum Wage To $17 By 2030
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced the Raise the Wage Act alongside 32 of her colleagues in the Senate and 146 members of the House of Representatives. This bicameral legislation would raise the minimum wage to $17 for all workers and gradually eliminate...
Senators Gillibrand, Wyden Lead A Group Of 21 Senators In Demanding That The Trump Administration Stop Their Attacks On Social Security
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Senator Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, led a group of 21 senators in a letter calling on the Trump administration and the so-called...
Senator Gillibrand And Congressmembers Lawler And Gillen Demand Answers From Secretary Kennedy On Head Start Field Office Closures
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, along with Congressmembers Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Laura Gillen (D-NY), sent a letter to United States Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding answers on closures of Office of Head Start (OHS)...
Gillibrand Blasts Trump’s Tariff Tax Hike, Which Will Raise Inflation, Slow Economic Growth, And Increase Cost Of Living For New York Families; Pushes Legislation To Reassert Congress’ Power Over Tariffs
Trump’s Tariffs Could Cost New York Households Almost $4,000 Extra Per Year For Gas, Groceries, And Other Everyday Goods Tax Hike Will Also Devastate Small Businesses, Lower Life Savings, And Kill Good-Paying Jobs Across New York Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand...
Gillibrand Reintroduces Legislation To Designate The Finger Lakes Region As A National Heritage Region
Legislation Would Promote Tourism And Help Preserve The History And Environment Of The Finger Lakes Region U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand reintroduced the bipartisan Finger Lakes National Heritage Area Act, which would designate the Finger Lakes region as a National...
Senators Gillibrand, Schumer, and Capito Introduce Commemorative Coin Bill To Honor 25th Anniversary Of 9/11
Yesterday, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Charles E. Schumer, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act, which would require the U.S. Mint to design and mint coins to honor the 25th anniversary of the September...
Gillibrand Statement On Ousting Of Head Of National Security Agency And U.S. Cyber Command
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement on the Trump administration’s politically motivated firing of General Timothy Haugh, the commander of U.S....
Gillibrand, Garbarino, Schumer, Jeffries, Nadler, Goldman Lead Bipartisan Push Calling On President Trump To Reverse Cuts To World Trade Center Health Program
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Representative Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Democratic Leader Jeffries (D-NY), and Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Dan Goldman (D-NY) are leading a bipartisan...