Lawmakers Emphasize that Suppression of Labor Rights Will Only Worsen VA Staffing and Reduce Quality of Care for Veterans WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) and Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (IL-03) led a coalition of House Democrats demanding that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) immediately reinstate collective bargaining agreements for more than 377,000 VA employees that... Read More »
Standing With Organized Labor, Healthcare Practitioners, and Patients, Kennedy Called on Congressional Republicans to Cancel the Cuts GOP’s Budget Resolution Fails to Extend ACA Tax Credits, Hiking Premiums By 75% for Patients BUFFALO, NY – Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) stood outside of Buffalo Therapy Services in Amherst, which is slated to close in November, to sound the alarm on a deepening h... Read More »
Legislation to Guarantee Burial Honors for U.S. Veterans Received Strong Bipartisan Support Bill Now Heads to the Senate for Consideration WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives has passed Congressman Tim Kennedy’s legislation, H.R. 2721, the Honoring Our Heroes Act. If enacted into law, this legislation would correct a long-standing inequity in how the Department of Veterans Affairs reco... Read More »
$240,000 Grant Secured By Kennedy During His Time In The New York State Senate Will Benefit Doyle #1 and #2 And All Other Cheektowaga Volunteer Fire Departments in Suppressing Battery Fires Grant From Kennedy Replaces Radios That Are 20+ Years Old And Reached End Of Their Repairable Lifespan CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. - Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) was joined by members of Doyle Fire District to announc... Read More »
U.S. Reps. Castor, Kennedy & Wasserman Schultz Sound Alarm After Tampa Bay Area Residents Express Fears of Weakened FEMA, National Weather Service & Resilience Grants That Save Money Almost one year after the most devastating hurricane season of our lifetimes, local elected officials, nonprofits, environmental and emergency management experts and neighborhood representatives across the Tampa Bay e... Read More »
Members of Congress Call Out ‘Dangerous Practice’ of Blocking Nearly $300 Million in Congressionally-Obligated Funding Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) led a coalition of 37 House Democrats in demanding that the Trump Administration immediately release nearly $300 million in frozen public health grants through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This oversight effort comes as the ... Read More »
Kennedy: Starting a Family is Expensive Enough Already - New Trump Tariffs Threaten to Make the Dream of Parenthood Even more Difficult and Financially Straining Legislation Would Lift Tariffs on Diapers, Formula, Strollers, Car Seats, Toys, and More BUFFALO, N.Y. - Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) was joined by community leaders at the warehouse location of Every Bottom Covered to call for passage... Read More »
Due to Changing Regulations, New Homeowners Have Been Left in Limbo, Unable to Receive Curbside Mail Delivery That Nearby Streets Enjoy WHEATFIELD, NY - Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) issued a letter today to the United States Postmaster General demanding that residents of the Whistling Straits development receive the same treatment as their neighbors on surrounding streets by receiving curbside ... Read More »
Last Week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Called New “Trump Accounts” a “Backdoor for Privatizing Social Security." BUFFALO, N.Y. - Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) was joined by colleagues in government, community leaders, and Social Security recipients to oppose recent comments by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who called the creation of Trump Accounts in the Republican Reconciliation Bill a... Read More »
Kennedy Demands Accountability on Dangerous Proposals to Undermine Public Safety BUFFALO, NY – Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) led 47 of his colleagues in sending a letter to Acting ATF Director Daniel Driscoll and Attorney General Pam Bondi urging the Trump administration to reverse harmful efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to weaken the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearm... Read More »
With FeedMore Already Seeing Historic Levels of Utilization, New Red Tape and Shifting of Expenses to States Threaten to Cost New York State Billions and Leave WNY Families Hungry BUFFALO, N.Y. - Congressman Tim Kennedy, joined by FeedMore WNY President and CEO Tara Ellis, warned that the recently passed Republican reconciliation law threatens to take food off the table for hungry Western New York... Read More »
President Trump has broken his promise to end the war in Gaza. Hamas continues to hold innocent people hostage because of his ineffective diplomacy. His strategic and moral failure has led to deteriorating conditions, with new reports and images of mass starvation of Palestinians. This is completely unacceptable. No one should ever die of hunger, especially children. The Trump administration’s for... Read More »
Wheatfield Residents, Split Between Four ZIP Codes, Have Long-Demanded Their Own Issues Faced Include Confusion in Filing Death Certificates, Erroneous GPS Directions, and Mistaken Street Names That Are Used in Overlapping ZIP Codes WHEATFIELD, N.Y. - Congressman Tim Kennedy, joined by Wheatfield Supervisor Don MacSwan, announced that his legislation directing the United States Postal Service to d... Read More »
Kennedy Demanded Answers on Behalf of Veterans in Western New York WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing, Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) raised urgent concerns about the Trump administration’s workforce reductions at the Department of Veterans Affairs and demanded accountability on behalf of Western New York’s veterans and the VA w... Read More »
With Enacted Medicaid Cuts, 25% of Nursing Homes Nationwide Face Threat of Closure, Creating Massive Burden for Families and Other Unpaid Caregivers BUFFALO, NY – Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) joined community leaders at the Schofield Residence Nursing Facility to denounce the devastating impact that Medicaid cuts, authorized in Trump and Congressional Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill, will have on nu... Read More »
