Press Releases
As The COVID-19 Crisis Causes New Yorkers To Work And Learn From Home, Gillibrand Renews Call For $100 Million In Broadband Funding For Rural Areas
Gillibrand Calls For Immediate Release Of CARES Act Reconnect Program Funding To Communities Facing A Broadband Gap
Gillibrand Announces Over $2 Million In FEMA Funding For New York City
Federal Funding Will Be Used To Repair Damages From Hurricane Sandy
Gillibrand Statement Calling For Jay Clayton To Withdraw His Name For Consideration As SDNY U.S. Attorney
Addressing reports that President Trump will nominate SEC Chairman Jay Clayton for U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following statement: “I will not be complicit in helping President Trump and...
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Nearly $300K In Funding For Tribal Communities During The COVID-19 Health Crisis
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $278,993 in federal funding to support New York’s tribal communities during the COVID-19 outbreak. This federal funding was allocated through the...
Gillibrand, Colleagues Introduce Andrew Kearse Accountability For Denial Of Medical Care Act
Legislation Will Hold Law Enforcement and Corrections Officers Criminally Liable for Denying Medical Care to People in Custody
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Over $3 Million In Federal Funding For Telehealth Services
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $3,053,074 in federal funding to provide additional telehealth services for New Yorkers affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. The tenth set of telehealth funding...
Gillibrand Cosponsors Legislation To Protect Americans’ Access To The Ballot Box During Coronavirus Pandemic
Gillibrand Joins Klobuchar, Wyden To Call For Natural Disaster And Emergency Ballot Act Of 2020 To Expand Early In-Person Voting And No-Excuse Absentee Vote-By-Mail To All States, Including $3.6 Billion In Funding To Strengthen Elections During The COVID-19 Crisis
Gillibrand Statement On SCOTUS Ruling On DACA
Addressing the Supreme Court’s ruling today that barred the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following statement: “The Supreme Court’s decision...
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Nearly $2 Million In Agricultural Research Funding For Cornell University
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $1,917,799 in federal funding for agricultural research and development at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The funding was awarded through the U.S. Department of...
As Nationwide Protests For Racial Justice Continue, Gillibrand And Colleagues Call For Oversight Of Use Of Rubber Bullets And Use Of Force Against Peaceful Protestors
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined her Senate colleagues to call for an immediate review of the safety of rubber bullets being used during civil rights protests, as well as the use of force against peaceful protesters. The push follows...