Rep Malliotakis warns DSA House candidates are ‘national security risk’

New York City’s lone Republican in the House of Representatives is raising alarms about the far-left Democrats poised to serve alongside her on Capitol Hill next year.

“These people are extreme, they’re radical, they are dangerous, and they really have no business being in the United States House of Representatives,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., told Digital. “And it scares me that they’re going to have access to intelligence.”

New York City was one of the largest fronts in the nationwide civil war that’s gripped the Democratic Party this midterm election cycle. It’s where two members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) scored upset primary victories against establishment-backed candidates — in deep-blue seats that mean they are virtually guaranteed to win their general elections in November.

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Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., in his Upper Manhattan and Bronx-area district, while New York State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez won an open race for the Brooklyn- and Queens-area district represented by retiring Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y.

Both Chevalier and Valdez have called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and have called Israel’s war on Gaza a “genocide.”

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Malliotakis said their support of the DSA platform made both “un-American.”

“I think they want to undermine the country. I mean, anybody whose campaign is based on no jails, no cops, no borders, is a real detriment to the country,” she said. “These are the people that are going to have access to intelligence? I think [Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.] really needs to look at that and see if they’re a national security threat.”

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., arrives for the House Republican Conference caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

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And if Republicans win the House majority in November, she called on Johnson to limit which committees the pair could serve on.

“I do have a lot of concern about these members having access to sensitive information and intelligence that if put in the wrong hands, could be a detriment to our national security,” Malliotakis said.

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The sentiment is just a preview of what is likely to be historic division within the House of Representatives next year, no matter who wins the midterms.

The DSA has advocated for scrapping the U.S. Constitution in favor of a new system, as well as the abolition of prisons, the Supreme Court, and the police.

Malliotakis also pointed out that Chevalier once posted online, “I forgot to get napkins, so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYC congressional candidate Claire Valdez embrace during a primary-night watch party at 99 Scott Studio on June 23, 2026, in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

But next year they are poised to be in the same congressional delegation, and the New York Republican, born to a Greek immigrant father and a Cuban immigrant mother, said she does not know how she could work with them.

“They are so extreme, I don’t see where we would find common ground,” Malliotakis said. “I don’t think I could work with somebody who wipes her hands on the American flag because she doesn’t have a napkin.”

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Chevalier and Valdez’s campaigns did not respond to a request for comment by Digital.