A husband and father, Nick and his wife Kaylie, his high school sweetheart, are raising three daughters.

Nick is a cum laude graduate from Hofstra University’s Zarb School of Business with a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA). In addition, Nick holds a Juris Doctor from Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law.

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Nicholas Lalota earned a Master of Business Administration from Hofstra University’s Zarb School of Business and a law degree from Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law. He and his wife, Kaylie, are raising three daughters.

Congressman Nick LaLota | Representing the 1st District of New York

2026 New York General Election

That’s why I helped pass tax relief that quadrupled the SALT deduction cap from $10,000 to $40,000, cut taxes on tips and overtime, and provided additional tax relief for seniors receiving Social Security and working families.

Standing Up for the American Worker

I co-led the bipartisan Protect America’s Workforce Act to crack down on worker misclassification and protect wages, benefits, and collective bargaining rights. I fought to preserve Davis-Bacon prevailing wage protections, supported Project Labor Agreements on appropriate federal projects, and fought to expand overtime tax relief for First Responders and other union workers.

I’ve supported American manufacturing by cutting red tape for small businesses competing for federal contracts, strengthening America’s—and Long Island’s—defense industrial base through the National Defense Authorization Act, protecting American industries from unfair foreign trade practices, supporting high-paying manufacturing jobs here on Long Island, and expanding workforce training for the next generation of skilled workers.

Seniors, people with disabilities, pregnant women, and Americans facing legitimate hardships should have a strong safety net. But able-bodied, non-senior adults who can work should be expected to work, seek work, train, or volunteer at least 80 hours per month in exchange for taxpayer-funded benefits.

Fighting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Helped pass tax relief that raised the state and local tax deduction cap, cut taxes on tips and overtime, and provided tax relief for seniors and working families.

Co-led the Protect America’s Workforce Act to address worker misclassification and protect wages, benefits, and collective-bargaining rights.

Supports reducing regulatory barriers for small businesses competing for federal contracts and expanding workforce training for skilled manufacturing jobs.

Supports requiring able-bodied, non-senior adults receiving taxpayer-funded benefits to work, seek work, train, or volunteer 80 hours monthly.

- Helped pass tax relief that raised the state and local tax deduction cap, cut taxes on tips and overtime, and provided tax relief for seniors and working families.
- Co-led the Protect America’s Workforce Act to address worker misclassification and protect wages, benefits, and collective-bargaining rights.
- Supports reducing regulatory barriers for small businesses competing for federal contracts and expanding workforce training for skilled manufacturing jobs.
- Supports requiring able-bodied, non-senior adults receiving taxpayer-funded benefits to work, seek work, train, or volunteer 80 hours monthly.

Economy

In New York City, Mayor Mamdani brought the socialist movement to City Hall after years of calling to defund the NYPD. Now, sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities have reached Long Island, with East Hampton Town and Village becoming Suffolk County’s first municipalities to adopt them.

I’m fighting their spread by reserving discretionary federal funding for communities committed to Law Enforcement cooperation, public safety, and the rule of law.

Law Enforcement and Public Safety

I’ve led and supported legislation giving Law Enforcement the tools and protections they need, including:

Strengthening the COPS Program and supporting the POLICE Act, Back the Blue Act, and Protect and Serve Act.

Leading the bipartisan DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act, now law, giving Law Enforcement better technology to stop deadly drugs.

Defending the Second Amendment rights of responsible, law-abiding gun owners while promoting firearm safety and responsible ownership.

Plans to reserve discretionary federal funding for communities committed to cooperation with law enforcement and public safety.

Led the DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act, which provides law enforcement with technology to detect fentanyl and xylazine.

Supports Second Amendment rights for responsible, law-abiding gun owners while promoting firearm safety and responsible ownership.

- Plans to reserve discretionary federal funding for communities committed to cooperation with law enforcement and public safety.
- Led the DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act, which provides law enforcement with technology to detect fentanyl and xylazine.
- Supports Second Amendment rights for responsible, law-abiding gun owners while promoting firearm safety and responsible ownership.

Public Safety

For too long, Washington’s answer to rising health care costs has been to spend more taxpayer money subsidizing increasingly expensive insurance instead of addressing why insurance costs so much in the first place.

I voted for the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, which increases competition, expands affordable coverage options, improves transparency, reforms pharmacy benefit managers, and reduces patients’ cost-sharing expenses.

Health Care Accessibility

Protecting Safety-Net Hospitals & Medicaid

Medicaid should be protected and strengthened for the vulnerable Americans it was created to serve.

When long-delayed Medicaid cuts threatened safety-net hospitals, I introduced the bipartisan Save Our Safety-Net Hospitals Act and worked across the aisle to prevent reductions in Disproportionate Share Hospital funding, helping protect Stony Brook Medicine and safety-net hospitals nationwide.

Prescription drugs only work if patients can afford them.

I’ve supported reforms to increase drug-price transparency, reduce costs for seniors, lower out-of-pocket expenses, and hold pharmacy benefit managers and other health care middlemen accountable.

I supported the bipartisan Safe Step Act to reduce insurance barriers that delay access to doctor-prescribed medications. I’ve also supported efforts to expand telehealth, improve seniors’ access to medications, strengthen opioid prevention and treatment, and expand access to over-the-counter birth control.

Preserving Patient Choice

Health care decisions should be made by patients, families, and their doctors—not politicians, insurance companies, or government bureaucrats.

That’s why I opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates that threatened Americans’ jobs and protected access to IVF and contraception.

On abortion, I reject the extremes of both parties. I oppose a federal abortion ban, support access during the first trimester, and support exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.

Voted for the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act to expand coverage options, reform pharmacy benefit managers, and reduce patient cost-sharing.

Supports protecting and strengthening Medicaid for vulnerable people.

Introduced the Save Our Safety-Net Hospitals Act to prevent reductions in Disproportionate Share Hospital funding.

Supports drug-pricing reforms to increase transparency, lower seniors’ costs and out-of-pocket expenses, and hold pharmacy benefit managers accountable.

Supports expanding telehealth, improving seniors’ medication access, strengthening opioid prevention and treatment, and expanding over-the-counter birth control access.

Opposes COVID-19 vaccine mandates that threaten jobs and supports access to in vitro fertilization and contraception.

Opposes a federal abortion ban; supports abortion access during the first trimester and exceptions for rape, incest, and the pregnant patient’s life.

- Voted for the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act to expand coverage options, reform pharmacy benefit managers, and reduce patient cost-sharing.
- Supports protecting and strengthening Medicaid for vulnerable people.
- Introduced the Save Our Safety-Net Hospitals Act to prevent reductions in Disproportionate Share Hospital funding.
- Supports drug-pricing reforms to increase transparency, lower seniors’ costs and out-of-pocket expenses, and hold pharmacy benefit managers accountable.
- Supports expanding telehealth, improving seniors’ medication access, strengthening opioid prevention and treatment, and expanding over-the-counter birth control access.
- Opposes COVID-19 vaccine mandates that threaten jobs and supports access to in vitro fertilization and contraception.
- Opposes a federal abortion ban; supports abortion access during the first trimester and exceptions for rape, incest, and the pregnant patient’s life.

Healthcare

Workers deserve the freedom to organize if they choose, the right to bargain collectively, and an economy that rewards work. That means strengthening American manufacturing, expanding domestic energy production, securing our supply chains, and creating more good-paying American jobs.

Supports expanding domestic energy production alongside strengthening manufacturing, securing supply chains, and creating American jobs.

- Supports expanding domestic energy production alongside strengthening manufacturing, securing supply chains, and creating American jobs.

Energy & the Environment

I have supported tougher penalties and deportation for dangerous criminal illegal immigrants, greater transparency regarding national security threats crossing our border, and legislation protecting taxpayer-funded benefits and voting rights reserved for American citizens.

Homeland Security: Border & Immigration — Nick LaLota | LaLota for Congress

Border security alone is not immigration reform. That's why I've bucked partisan orthodoxy by cosponsoring the bipartisan DIGNITY Act. The legislation combines strong border enforcement and asylum reform with a structured, earned legal status—but not citizenship—for individuals who pass background checks, meet strict requirements, pay penalties, and demonstrate they are contributing to our communities. It also respects the millions of people who have followed our laws and waited patiently to immigrate legally.

When East Hampton adopted sanctuary policies, I made clear that I would not support Community Project Funding requests from municipalities that deliberately obstruct lawful cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Local governments should not expect federal taxpayers to subsidize policies that make it harder for Law Enforcement to keep dangerous criminals off our streets.

Those experiences shaped a simple view of national defense: America should have the strongest, most lethal military in the world—not because we seek war, but because strength is the best way to deter it.

Peace Through Strength

I have supported accountable security assistance to help Israel defeat terrorist threats, Ukraine resist Putin’s aggression, and our Indo-Pacific partners deter China—while replenishing American stockpiles, expanding U.S. weapons production, and strengthening the supply chains our own military depends on.

The Powell Doctrine guides my approach: military force should be used when a vital national interest is at stake, nonmilitary options have been exhausted, and our objective and exit strategy are clear.

Supports tougher penalties and deportation for dangerous undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes, along with greater transparency about border security threats.

Cosponsored the DIGNITY Act, combining border enforcement and asylum reform with earned legal status, but not citizenship, for eligible undocumented immigrants.

Opposes federal project funding for municipalities that obstruct cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Advocates for the strongest possible U.S. military to deter war.

Supports accountable security assistance to Israel, Ukraine, and Indo-Pacific partners while replenishing U.S. military stockpiles and expanding weapons production.

Supports using military force only when vital national interests are at stake, other options are exhausted, and objectives and exit strategies are clear.

- Supports tougher penalties and deportation for dangerous undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes, along with greater transparency about border security threats.
- Cosponsored the DIGNITY Act, combining border enforcement and asylum reform with earned legal status, but not citizenship, for eligible undocumented immigrants.
- Opposes federal project funding for municipalities that obstruct cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
- Advocates for the strongest possible U.S. military to deter war.
- Supports accountable security assistance to Israel, Ukraine, and Indo-Pacific partners while replenishing U.S. military stockpiles and expanding weapons production.
- Supports using military force only when vital national interests are at stake, other options are exhausted, and objectives and exit strategies are clear.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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