Press Releases

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. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Lois Frankel (D-FL), Ranking Members of key Appropriations Subcommittees, Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Co-Chairs of the Reproductive Freedom Caucus (RFC), led 67 Members of Congress in sending a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to continue demanding answers about the ongoing waste and destruction of life-saving, taxpayer-funded contraception and other health supplies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS), announced today that she sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) demanding answers about eight judges who were abruptly fired from New York’s Federal Plaza Immigration Court.