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The Supreme Court ordered the Biden administration to reinstate President Donald Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy, which forced migrants to wait across the border while seeking asylum in the United States, on Aug. 24. After four months of purposeful delay, the administration says it will restart this desperately needed program this week.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) introduced the “Protect American Taxpayer Dollars from Illegal Immigration Act,” which would prevent the federal government from paying settlements to migrant families detained at the border, in the House on Friday.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., ripped outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio after he made the Big Apple the first to open supervised drug consumption centers, calling the move a breach of federal law and his latest "parting gift" before he leaves office. 

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) said Friday that she’d continue to fight against Democrats’ “Build Back Better” legislation despite it passing her chamber of Congress.

The legislation, valued at approximately $1.75 trillion, faces a more challenging path in the Senate where conservative Democratic Senator Krysten Sinema (D-Arizona) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) have expressed trepidations about some of its parts.

While there’s nothing in the bipartisan infrastructure bill — signed by President Joe Biden on Monday — specific to Staten Island, some elected officials are hoping it could mean big improvements for the borough.

Over the next 10 years, the White House estimates that there is $550 billion in new federal spending in the bill for things like highways, public transit, energy supplies, waterways and broadband.

The city Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will award Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC) more than $2.3 million in federal grants through the Head Start and Early Start programs, which help children from low-income families, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) announced on Wednesday.

After much backlash from fellow House Republicans, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., on Tuesday defended her decision to vote for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. 

Malliotakis told Fox News there is "incredibly important" infrastructure in the measure.

Last Tuesday, Americans from one side of the country to the other, elected Republicans to state and local office, sending Joe Biden and the Democrats a message that we are not, and will never be, a socialist nation. Because this message was so clear, even Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress could not ignore it.