“This year we spent more as a state than any year before, yet there’s still so much more we could and should have done for working families and small businesses. To think we gave over twice what we did to small businesses to illegal immigrants is...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) is voicing his frustration following the passage of a series of bills that would violate the Second Amendment rights of New Yorkers. Gallahan voted against every proposal. The bills would drive gun sellers and...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) is joining his Assembly and Senate Minority colleagues in demanding the termination of the state disaster emergency declared by Executive Order 202 before the end of the 2020-21 Legislative Session, which is...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) is hailing the unanimous decision by a state selection committee to choose Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery as the first New York state veterans cemetery, which first opened in 2011. This official designation...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) is calling on Governor Cuomo and the New York State Department of Labor to reopen physical unemployment offices following a statewide relaxation of COVID-19 related regulations, including capacity restrictions...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) is rallying alongside fellow Minority members in the Assembly to pass a bill (A.7107) that would prohibit statewide elected officials from profiting on published works while serving in their position. The effort...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) is announcing $11.2 million in funding from New York Homes and Community Renewal to Lafayette Apartments and Huntington Apartments to build affordable housing for veterans and the elderly in Seneca County. Lafayette...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) is joining Assembly Minority in opposing the extension of a legislative moratorium on evictions, which Majority members are looking to extend until August 31, 2021. He was in attendance as Minority lawmakers...

As with most things in life and in government, there was both good and bad in this year’s state budget but taken as a whole it is incredibly troubling both for the immediate well-being of taxpayers and our future fiscal stability. This year’s $212...

“This budget is incredibly irresponsible and will adjust the people and government of our state to spending levels we will be unable to sustain in the years to come. Worse yet, even with the budget being as large as it is, it still fails to prioritize...

“In legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, we have opened the door for a myriad of unforeseen consequences to ravage our communities in ways we will pay for financially and in terms of our public health and safety. When looking at how legalization...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) and other members of the Assembly Minority Conference wrote a letter to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins urging them to include measures in the final state budget...

Today, Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) is calling on the Commissioner of the State Department of Taxation and Finance, Michael Schmidt, to postpone the deadline to file personal state income taxes from April 15 to May 17.The IRS recently announced...

“As we head into the final weeks of the budget negotiation process, my focus is on protecting local taxpayers, getting kids back to school and getting our economy restarted. New York is getting billions in federal funding and we must remain laser focused...

Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) has created a legislative survey that can be taken online, and which was also sent physically in the mail to many constituents. The survey seeks to solicit opinions from residents within the assemblyman’s district...

“Our state is facing incredible challenges we have never seen before. An ongoing global pandemic, vaccine distribution and a state budget that must be passed in less than a month. I commend the Attorney General, Letitia James, for her investigation...

“After rejecting an amendment that would fully remove the governor’s emergency powers, what passed today in the Assembly did no such thing. It should have been called a contract extension, because what this bill actually does is remove the April 30,...

“Today’s failure by Assembly Majority to rescind the governor’s emergency powers is extremely disheartening, to say the least. After lying to families and lawmakers throughout the state about nursing home fatalities and then working to cover it...

“Our state is in a crisis, and today the Speaker has shown he is more concerned with protecting the Governor from the consequences of his coverup of nursing home deaths and allegations of sexual harassment than helping New Yorkers make it through this...