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The last few weeks in Washington have been anything but boring – from the last-minute passage of a bill to temporarily fund the federal government, to the historic removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House. This week, Kurt Semder sat down with Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis to find out her thoughts on the vote, the funding bill and why she is pushing to remove a fellow New York representative from Congress.
The not-for-profit organization operating a temporary migrant shelter in Staten Island is facing criticism from local pols for allegedly ousting the residents of the former senior living facility earlier this year after they were told the site was up for sale.
A 95-year-old veteran was among the some 50 residents at Island Shores Residence at 111 Father Capodanno Blvd. who were displaced in March at the behest of the site operator, Homes for the Homeless.
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Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) is already moving to draft a resolution to have Congressman Jamaal “The Fire Alarm Guy” Bowman (D-NY) expelled from the House of Representatives after he pulled a fire alarm at the Cannon House Office Building ahead of a motion to adjourn on Saturday.
Bowman claims it was a mistake. He said he thought that pulling the alarm would open the door.
Malliotakis isn’t having it.
Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis on Wednesday praised the court ruling that would force the city to clear out a temporary migrant shelter in the borough.
Judge Wayne Ozzi on Tuesday called into question the city’s 42-year-old “right to shelter” policy, arguing against the “consent decree” that has been interpreted as a mandate to provide shelter. He argued the decree is meant to provide emergency housing for New Yorkers, and therefore, does not apply to migrant asylum seekers.
A 95-year-old Korean War veteran said he was given less than two months’ notice to figure out where he was going to live after the nursing home he resided in was sold to become a facility for undocumented migrants.
Frank Tammaro was one of the lucky ones.
When the owners of his former assisted living facility, Island Shores Senior Residence in Midland Beach, made it clear he was no longer welcome, Tammaro, 95, had a strong support system in place. After a brief stay at another senior living center, he now resides with his daughter, Barbara Annunziata.
A new law approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul Wednesday will allows New York voters to cast ballots by mail instead of in-person for the 2024 elections — but the ink wasn’t even dry when Republican bigwigs sued to block it from taking effect.
The law will have the state Board of Elections create a program giving all registered voters the opportunity to vote early by mail in advance of an election.
Dozens of city lawmakers and supportive constituents filed a lawsuit early Tuesday seeking to block Mayor Adams’ administration from housing as many as 2,000 migrants at Floyd Bennett Field, a mostly defunct airfield in southern Brooklyn that would cost taxpayers $1.7 million in monthly rent.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Military bases like Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton would be denied funding for migrant shelters if legislation, introduced by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn), becomes law.
The bill, which Malliotakis introduced with Rep. John Carter (R-Tx.) on Thursday, would block federal money from being used to house immigrants not lawfully admitted to the U.S.
As New York City deals with the ongoing migrant crisis, sites around the city have been used or proposed to be used to house the new arrivals.
A bipartisan legislative push is afoot on Capitol Hill to prohibit all U.S. employers from forcing their retired workers into Medicare Advantage coverage — a proposal that could spell trouble for Mayor Adams, who’s trying to mandate the privatized health insurance program for New York City’s 250,000 municipal retirees.