Nydia Velázquez: “Make no mistake, I will not sit here and try to sugarcoat the failures we have seen at PREPA.”

I urge my colleagues not to engage in knee-jerk reactions that set back our real progress toward creating a more equitable criminal justice system.

Republicans want to cut vital food and healthcare support programs to pay for a tax cut for billionaires and large corporations. The GOP wants working families to pay for their billionaire handouts.

I don’t trust Elon Musk with this information, and I know the American people don’t, either.

Today’s groundbreaking is the culmination of years of organizing by residents and community leaders for solutions to North Brooklyn's housing crisis.