Three Law-and-Order Posts in Three Days. No Mention of the $87 Million in Police Funding Still Withheld From New York.

Rule of Law / Public Safety Source: Facebook Posts (campaign and official pages) MISSING CONTEXT

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Why this matters

The State Homeland Security Program is the federal grant that helps pay for planning, equipment, and training at county sheriffs’ offices and police departments in every county in New York — including all eight counties of NY-23. For nearly a year, part of that money has been withheld by the Trump administration, despite a presidential promise to restore it and a federal court order that forced partial payment. In the last week of August, Rep. Langworthy posted three times about supporting law enforcement. None of the posts mentions the withheld money, and no statement from him about it could be located anywhere.

Statements

Source: Facebook, campaign page (“Nick Langworthy”), August 26, 2026, 1:55 PM, sharing a New York Post op-ed titled “Hochul’s ban on cops working with ICE is an attack on public safety”:

“The Attorney General’s job is to be the chief law enforcement of the state, not to go to war with her law enforcement partners. Our sheriffs are on the frontlines of keeping our communities safe from dangerous criminals and they should be supported not prevented from working with federal law enforcement to do their jobs. Disgraceful.”

Source: Facebook, official office page (“Congressman Nick Langworthy”), August 28, 2026, on the relocated DHS career expo in Buffalo:

“The left hates law and order and the brave men and women who enforce it… This critical U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement job fair will go on”

A third post on the campaign page the same morning (August 26, 10:54 AM, sharing a Fox Business story) attributed New York’s troubles in part to “the dismantling of our criminal justice system.”

The Facts

The expo

The Department of Homeland Security scheduled a two-day hiring expo for September 1–2, 2026 at the Buffalo Convention Center. The venue canceled it on August 27 after Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz urged the convention center to drop the event over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s participation. Patrick Kaler, president and CEO of the convention center’s operator, said it had asked DHS to hold the expo without ICE — with all other law enforcement agencies participating — before canceling. DHS moved the event to U.S. Coast Guard Sector Eastern Great Lakes on Fuhrmann Boulevard, where it ran September 1–2 and drew thousands of job seekers.

Two details in the Congressman’s post don’t match that record. The event is a DHS-wide career expo — Coast Guard, CBP, TSA, Secret Service, FEMA and others — not an “ICE job fair.” And the venue’s own account was that it offered to host every other law enforcement agency, which is difficult to square with a dispute about hating “law and order and the brave men and women who enforce it.” The objection, whatever one thinks of it, was to one agency.

The money his posts don’t mention

While those posts went up, this was the status of the federal grant money that funds the sheriffs and police he was writing about:

DateWhat happened
2025 (delayed NOFO)DHS’s FY2025 Homeland Security Grant Program funding notice cut New York’s allocation by 40 percent, about $87 million
Sept 27, 2025At award issuance, DHS cut an additional $102.7 million without stated explanation — $187 million total, 86 percent of New York’s funding. SHSP fell from $61,229,940 (FY2024) to $5,624,924, a 90.8 percent cut; UASI fell 85.9 percent
Sept 29, 2025Attorney General James and 11 other state attorneys general sued DHS in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island over the award-stage cut
Oct 3, 2025President Trump posted on Truth Social that he had “reversed the cuts made to Homeland Security and Counterterrorism for New York City and State”
Dec 2025The court granted the states summary judgment and ordered DHS to restore funding to committed levels; DHS appealed, then dropped the appeal
Sept 1, 2026Gov. Hochul’s office: only about $100 million has been delivered — after the court order — leaving nearly $87 million still withheld. The state itemizes the two largest components as $63,278,152 in UASI funding and $17,687,197 in SHSP funding

In plain language: the federal government cut New York’s counterterrorism and police-preparedness grants nearly to zero last fall, the President said he had reversed the cuts, a court order later forced part of the money out, and almost a year after the promise, roughly $87 million — including $17.7 million from the program that funds county sheriffs and police departments statewide — still has not arrived. The New York State Comptroller’s office notes that “all counties in New York State receive SHSP funding.” That includes Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Schuyler, Steuben, and Tioga.

What his colleagues did, and what he said

When the cuts landed in the fall of 2025, other New York Republicans went public. Rep. Malliotakis said she called President Trump directly. Rep. Lawler said he “made clear that these cuts were unacceptable” from day one. Rep. Garbarino, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, publicly urged DHS to reverse course. There was no delegation letter — the appeals were individual public statements.

As of September 3, 2026, no public statement from Rep. Langworthy on the HSGP cuts, the withheld $87 million, or the partial restoration could be located in his House press-release archive or on either of his Facebook pages. His August 26 post says sheriffs “should be supported”; the search found no instance of him addressing the federal grant money that supports them.

The vote that funds the hiring surge

The expo he did post about exists because of a law he voted for. H.R. 1, the July 2025 reconciliation law, provided ICE roughly $75 billion over four years, funding the recruitment drive the Buffalo expo served. Langworthy voted Aye (Roll Call 190). That vote and the funding disparity can both be true; the point is that the enforcement expansion he supported is fully funded and publicly celebrated, while the local-police grant money is withheld and unmentioned.

The fair reading

  • “This critical… job fair will go on” was accurate. The expo was relocated, not stopped, and it ran September 1–2 as he said it would.
  • The dispute he weighed in on is real. The state Attorney General’s guidance limiting local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement is a genuine, contested policy question. Criticizing it is ordinary political speech, and this entry takes no position on it.
  • The withheld money is not his doing. The cuts were made by DHS and FEMA, executive agencies; no House vote created them. A member of Congress does not control grant disbursement. What this entry documents is a messaging asymmetry — three posts on law and order in three days, none acknowledging the largest law-enforcement funding story in the state — not a vote or an action.
  • There was no letter he declined to sign. The October 2025 appeals by his colleagues were individual. His absence from the public record is documented silence, not a refusal of a specific ask.
  • Credit for the partial restoration is contested. Republican colleagues cite their appeals to the President; the state credits its lawsuit and the December court order, which preceded the $100 million payment. Both can have mattered.

Questions this raises

  1. Does the Congressman support release of the remaining $87 million, including the $17.7 million in SHSP funding that flows to county law enforcement in all eight counties he represents?
  2. His August 26 post says sheriffs “should be supported.” Has his office contacted DHS or FEMA about the withheld SHSP funds on behalf of NY-23’s sheriffs and police departments?
  3. Why does the official-office post describe a DHS-wide career expo — Coast Guard, CBP, TSA, Secret Service, FEMA and more — as an “ICE job fair”?
  4. Several New York Republican colleagues publicly pressed the administration in October 2025. Did he make any appeal, public or private, and will his office say so?

Sources

The funding record (primary)

The expo

Colleagues’ appeals

The posts

  • Screenshots on file (campaign page, Aug 26, 2026, 1:55 PM and 10:54 AM; official page, Aug 28, 2026); see archive note.
  • H.R. 1 ICE funding and Roll Call 190: see the February 2026 shutdown entry and House Clerk Roll 190 (July 3, 2025).

Note: This entry documents publicly available information. It does not allege wrongdoing, and it takes no position on the underlying immigration enforcement policy disputes. The absence of a Langworthy statement on the HSGP cuts reflects a good-faith search of his public record as of the publication date; see the publication note. Rep. Langworthy’s office has not been asked for comment as of this writing, and any response will be published in full.

Last updated: September 3, 2026