EXPOSED: Gillen Caught Taking Credit for Funding She Tried to Block

Lying Laura Gillen has been exposed (yet again) for taking a victory lap on critical funding for her district that she tried to block.

Gillen had the audacity to hold a press conference and photo-op with a giant check touting $938,000 in federal funding for the Bellerose Fire Department… even though Gillen voted AGAINST the bill that delivered the funding.

“Out of touch Democrat Laura Gillen is lying about her achievements because she’s accomplished absolutely nothing for Long Island. New Yorkers deserve better than her photo-op politics.” — NRCC Spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole

Read the full story here, or see excerpts below:

After Shutdown, Democrats Claim Credit for Funding They Opposed
The New York Times
Catie Edmondson
December 10, 2025

Representative Laura Gillen, Democrat of New York, arrived at a fire department in her Long Island district last week bearing a huge cardboard check for nearly a million dollars, with “U.S. Congress” written on the signature line.

“In May, I urged the House Appropriations Committee to allocate new federal funding for a fire truck for the Bellerose Village Fire Department and successfully secured $938,000,” Ms. Gillen wrote on social media. “I am delighted that this funding is now headed to Bellerose to help our first responders.”

Ms. Gillen had, in fact, lobbied her colleagues to approve funding for the fire truck, and it was included in the spending package that ultimately ended the nation’s longest government shutdown. But what she did not mention was that she, like most Democrats in Congress, ultimately voted against the bill that provided the money, because it failed to meet her party’s demand to extend expiring health care subsidies.

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She is one of roughly a dozen House Democrats, almost half of whom are facing tough re-elections next year, who opposed the spending bill even though it contained millions of dollars that they had personally worked to add.

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