Nydia Velázquez: “This outstanding package means the Citigroup CEO makes $486 for every dollar that the median employee at the firm is…”

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

We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges—and we shouldn't accept it from ICE either.

We need to bring a national standard to ICE agents, and we need to bring transparency and accountability.