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The group has been stymied for eight months by a Trump Administration policy that has kept administrators of the federal World Trade Center Health Program from meeting with the group, according to emails reviewed by Newsday. Great reporting and story by colleague @Laura_Figueroa.

I guess we should not have reported this story at all, is your take? Just not mention it? Thanks for the "classic" compliment, though. That softened the blow. Please keep sending me your frank opinions. This could be the start of somethjng special.

But in a statement, Rep. LaLota (R-Amityville) said, "My brother's qualifications as a badass sniper stand on their own and I did not and could not help him to secure a government contract.".

There is no indication on that site that the contract, which was first reported Thursday by Wired, was won after competitive bidding. Contacted by Newsday, Dan LaLota declined to comment on whether his company had to bid for the contract. 3/4.

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Some details of the new Department of Homeland Security contract with the company, Target Down Group, Inc., of Mechanicsville — run by Dan LaLota — are available on a website that tracks government contracts, 2/4.

A Virginia firearms-training company run by Long Island GOP Rep. Nick LaLota’s brother has snared a $30,000 federal contract to train U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement snipers and other agents in "high-stakes environments." 1/4.

RT @bern_hogan: .@ZohranKMamdani responding to @Tom_Suozzi accusing him of corrupting the Democratic brand:. “I have yet to meet a New York….

“It’s speculation, as far as I am concerned, right now, but I don’t see it having any political benefit for any of the people who are allegedly connected to some effort led by Donald Trump and the administration to change the trajectory of the New York City mayoral race," he said.

Top House Dem Hakeem Jeffries continued to play the coy "stay tuned" card Friday when asked about any endorsement of Mamdani NYC Mayoral race. But he did weigh-in on reports the Trump administration is offering Mayor Adams a potential job to drop out of race, as "meddling." 1/2.

To those Democratic House incumbents and other candidates planning to run for Congress from Arizona and New Mexico to Idaho, Hudson said, they should all look at Mamdani and recognize, “Yeah, that’s your party.” 3/3.

“He shows you that’s where the Democratic Party is now,” the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman told Newsday on Thursday. “I mean, all the energy, all the money, is with the extreme left.” 2/2.

Rep. Richard Hudson, the North Carolina Republican who heads his party’s House political arm, says the GOP will seek to tie all Democrats running in next year’s congressional elections, not just in New York’s suburbs and statewide, but across the country, to Mamdani,.

RT @politico: NYC Mayor Eric Adams faces a decision: A Trump administration post to drop his reelection campaign

Clay Higgins continues his love-fest with some fellow House Republicans; this time, at least, Rep. Garbarino - who beat him out for the Homeland Security chairmanship -- is not getting singled out.

It's Newsday’s 85th birthday! My first three weeks at the paper as one of its DC reporters clearly among the most pivotal.

RT @RepTomSuozzi: We started working on a Congressional Gold Medal for the Harlem Hellfighters 5 years ago, and today, at 3:00pm at the Cap….

Sen. Gillibrand. “I was proud to serve as the lead senator on the bill to honor these heroes. They represent the very best of America and the very best of New York, and I am grateful that Congress is, at long last, honoring their tremendous service to our nation.”.