Nick LaLota

During three overseas deployments, he served aboard the USS Curts and the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. As a Tactical Action Officer aboard the Carl Vinson, Nick was entrusted with weapons-release authority and responsibility for helping defend the ship and approximately 5,000 Americans aboard her.

Nick has built a record focused on making Long Island more affordable, securing the border, supporting Law Enforcement, strengthening America’s military, protecting our environment and water quality, and making sure Long Islanders get a better return on the enormous amount of tax dollars they send to Washington.

For Nick, the issues he works on in Congress are the same ones his neighbors face around their kitchen tables: whether families can afford to stay on Long Island, whether communities are safe, whether children have opportunities to succeed, and whether the next generation will be able to build a life here.

Fighting Fraud, Waste & Abuse

Nick’s years in uniform shaped his approach to leadership: put the mission first, take responsibility, support the people serving alongside you, and never forget that leadership is about service.

As a Village Trustee and Budget Officer, Nick helped reduce Village debt by more than 20% while maintaining essential services and strengthening public safety. At the Suffolk County Board of Elections, he worked to administer fair, secure, and accessible elections. At the County Legislature, he helped manage the legislative agenda and worked with officials across Suffolk County on budgets, public safety, infrastructure, and other issues affecting Long Island taxpayers.

Secure the border and consistently enforce federal immigration laws.

• Maintain lawful immigration while ending catch-and-release and weak enforcement.

Calls for deporting dangerous unauthorized immigrants who commit crimes; the source does not specify a conviction requirement.

Protect taxpayer-funded benefits and federal voting rights for eligible American citizens.

• Require eligibility safeguards in public programs and elections.

Support the DIGNITY Act's combination of border enforcement, asylum reform, and structured earned legal status without citizenship for qualifying long-term residents.

• Require background checks, penalties, and contribution to the community.

Helped pass the Secure the Border Act in the House.

• Strengthen border enforcement resources and policy.

Introduced bipartisan legislation restricting federal bailouts for sanctuary jurisdictions.

• Link federal funding to immigration-enforcement cooperation.

Authored bipartisan legislation enacted to strengthen federal detection of fentanyl, xylazine, and emerging illicit drugs.

• Improve Department of Homeland Security detection capabilities.

Withhold discretionary community-project funding from municipalities that obstruct lawful cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

• Use federal funding decisions to encourage enforcement cooperation.

Invest in military staffing, training, ships, submarines, munitions, unmanned systems, advanced technology, and the industrial base that produces them.

• Base military decisions on merit, performance, readiness, and lethality.

Prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon without deploying U.S. ground forces, seek an end to the Ukraine war without direct conflict with Russia, and build Indo-Pacific strength to deter China.

• Prepare to win wars while avoiding unnecessary conflict.

Make the expanded federal state and local tax deduction permanent beyond its scheduled expiration.

• Preserve tax relief for qualifying Long Island households.

Helped negotiate an increase in the federal SALT deduction cap from $10,000 to $40,000 for qualifying households.

• Secured inflation adjustments and a five-year expansion.

Expand domestic energy production responsibly to strengthen energy independence, lower costs, and create jobs.

• Support safe development of New York natural-gas resources.

Require able-bodied adults receiving specified public benefits to work, seek employment, or volunteer at least 80 hours per month.

• Preserve support for seniors, people with disabilities, and others unable to work.

Voted for legislation to increase competition, expand coverage options, improve transparency, reform pharmacy benefit managers, and reduce patient cost sharing.

• Lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs.

Introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent reductions in Disproportionate Share Hospital funding.

• Protect Stony Brook Medicine and other safety-net hospitals.

Oppose a federal abortion ban, support access during the first trimester and exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, and protect IVF and contraception.

• Keep specified reproductive-care decisions available under federal law.

Helped secure federal funding for the Long Island Sound, Peconic Estuary, and drinking-water, wastewater, stormwater, groundwater, and septic infrastructure.

• Support conservation and water quality.

Secured federal funding for vehicles, equipment, and technology used by Suffolk County law-enforcement agencies.

• Support local public-safety capacity.

Voted to fund veterans health care, including toxic-exposure treatment, and supported the bipartisan Dole veterans health and benefits legislation.

• Strengthen caregiver assistance, mental-health services, and homelessness prevention.

Introduced bipartisan legislation for veteran peer support addressing PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and service-related challenges.

• Model the federal program on Suffolk County's peer-support approach.

Introduced bipartisan legislation for research, diagnosis, and treatment of bile-duct cancer linked to Southeast Asia service and pressed for presumptive-service recognition.

• Improve access to care and benefits for affected veterans.

Protect workers' freedom to organize and bargain collectively.

• Treat fair pay and worker voice as economic priorities.

Co-led legislation addressing worker misclassification, defended Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, and supported faster first collective-bargaining agreements.

• Protect wages, benefits, and bargaining rights.

Strengthen American manufacturing, expand domestic energy production, secure supply chains, and train the next generation of skilled workers.

• Create more good-paying jobs with American production.