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QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today that she visited the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn where she toured the facility and met with two New Yorkers currently detained there by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) including New York City Council employee Rafael Rubio. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Grace Meng (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel raising concerns about his decision to fire several agents from the Bureau’s top Middle East counterintelligence unit just days before U.S. military operations began against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Due to the war with Iran, U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) late today led a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the State Department to help stranded Americans leave the Middle East and return to the United States.

QUEENS, NY – To stand against President Trump’s attacks on health care and their impacts on New York, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today that the New York City Deputy Mayor who oversees city health services will be her guest for the President’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, February 24th.   

QUEENS, NY – With the 2026 tax filing season now underway, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today that she has arranged for free tax preparation and filing services at her Forest Hills district office. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), New York’s senior member of the House Appropriations Committee – which funds federal agencies, programs and initiatives – announced today that she secured nearly $18 million for 15 critical projects throughout Queens. 

This Community Project Funding is money that was included in new government spending bills that fund most of the federal government through the end of the 2026 fiscal year. The measures were recently passed by the House and Senate and have now been enacted into law. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, announced the introduction of the Uniform Standards for Federal Law Enforcement Act, a bill that would place into law a clear use of force policy for federal law enforcement. 

QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today that she asked the Queens Public Library to provide more days of mobile library service for the Rego Park Library while the facility is closed and rebuilt over the next several years.