{"id":46756,"date":"2025-11-21T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/46756\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:15:08","slug":"new-york-democrat-nydia-velazquez-says-she-will-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/46756\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Democrat Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez says she will retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Posted November 20, 2025 at 6:24pm<\/p>\n<p>New York Rep. Nydia M. Vel\u00e1zquez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the House, said she won\u2019t seek another term next year, joining a growing list of Democrats who say it\u2019s time for fresh leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this work and I love my district, but I believe now is the right moment to step aside and allow a new generation of leaders to step forward,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/20\/nyregion\/nydia-velazquez-retire.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told The New York Times<\/a>, which first reported the news of her retirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York\u2019s recent mayoral election showed that Americans are hungry for change and determined to build a better future,\u201d she said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NydiaVelazquez\/status\/1991635080239018210\/photo\/4\" rel=\"nofollow\">statement<\/a>. Vel\u00e1zquez was an early supporter of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s successful campaign for New York mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Vel\u00e1zquez\u2019s retirement is likely to attract another crowded Democratic primary in the 7th District, which includes parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Fellow Rep. Jerrold Nadler\u2019s retirement has drawn a crowd of candidates in his Manhattan-based 12th District, while some primaries are expected in other districts in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vel\u00e1zquez, 72, is in her 17th term and is the ranking member of the House Small Business Committee. She served as chair of that panel twice \u2014 from 2007 through 2010 and again from 2019 through 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her first chairmanship marked the first time a Hispanic woman led a House committee and her second time at the helm of the panel overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic, which put her in the forefront of attempts to mitigate the pandemic\u2019s impact on small businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She is a former head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the second highest-ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted November 20, 2025 at 6:24pm New York Rep. Nydia M. Vel\u00e1zquez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19357,26533,288,5340,8676,2132,2659,416,2200,5349,5854,9,11,10,26534],"class_list":{"0":"post-46756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-19357","9":"tag-26533","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-campaigns","12":"tag-coronavirus","13":"tag-democrats","14":"tag-election","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-financial-services","17":"tag-house","18":"tag-leadership","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-headlines","21":"tag-new-york-news","22":"tag-primaries"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}