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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (8th District of Illinois)

WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) released the following statement renewing his call for the Senate to reject Todd Blanche’s nomination to serve as Attorney General following Blanche’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings:

“A month ago, I led my colleagues in urging the Senate to reject Todd Blanche’s nomination because he led the Trump Administration’s cover-up of the Epstein files, lacked the independence required of an Attorney General, and repeatedly demonstrated that his first loyalty is to President Trump, not the Constitution and the American people. His confirmation hearings only reinforced those concerns. Under Mr. Blanche’s leadership, the Department of Justice exposed the identities of Epstein survivors while continuing to withhold the full Epstein files Congress and the American people were promised. Time and again, Mr. Blanche has put President Trump’s political interests ahead of survivors, ahead of the rule of law, and ahead of the Constitution he is sworn to uphold. His refusal to reject the Administration’s efforts to use the Department of Justice to launch an unprecedented federal takeover of our elections only confirmed that he lacks the independence and judgment required of an Attorney General. The Senate should reject his nomination.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Donald Norcross (1st District of New Jersey)

WASHINGTON — Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Building Trades Caucus, have introduced the bipartisan Pre-Apprenticeships To Hardhats (PATH) Act to create, fund, and sustain pre-apprenticeship programs for all building and construction trades. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) is leading companion legislation in the Senate. 

Pre-apprenticeships are a proven strategy for building a workforce ready to meet industry demands and will instruct participants on everything from basic literacy and math to work-readiness skills that can be tailored to the needs of students and labor markets. 

The PATH Act will support more quality pre-apprenticeship programs and build a workforce ready to fill critical construction jobs by providing grants to be used for training, curriculum development, evaluations, and more. Eligible recipients for grants would include employers, unions, state and local workforce development boards, community-based organizations, postsecondary educational institutions, school districts, state education agencies, high schools, small businesses, and veterans’ service organizations. 

“Young people need to know that expensive four-year degrees are not the only way to earn a good living and provide value to your community,” Norcross said. “America needs to build more of everything from housing to energy to infrastructure, and pre-apprenticeships are the perfect entry point for the high-paying, fulfilling careers available right now. My own electrical apprenticeship kickstarted a life I’m extremely proud of and serves as my inspiration to create more of those opportunities for today’s workforce, too.” 

“A highly-trained, skilled trade workforce is essential to job creation and economic growth,” Fitzpatrick said. “As co-chair of the Congressional Building Trades Caucus, I am proud to join this bipartisan effort to further invest in apprenticeship programs, particularly in underserved communities nationwide.” 

“My Pre-Apprenticeships to Hardhats Act will help workers gain the skills and training they need to succeed in high-demand careers they can build their families around. These are the kinds of jobs that allow folks to put food on the table and get ahead,” Heinrich said. “I remain committed to solutions that expand pathways to in-demand jobs, grow our local workforce, and ensure New Mexico has the skilled workers it needs for the future.” 

The PATH Act is endorsed by North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU). 

“North America’s Building Trades Unions understand the training and education pathways required to produce a highly-skilled workforce, and we fully support apprenticeship readiness programs,” said Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions. “The efforts in the PATH Act not only open the pipelines of the skilled trades to underserved communities across America, they are essential to securing a strong foundation for America’s middle-class and ensuring national and local economic growth.” 

Full text of the legislation can be found here. 

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (8th District of Illinois)

WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) released the following statement after President Donald Trump used a primetime address to declassify election-related intelligence, renew false claims about the 2020 election, and announce new federal investigations:

“As a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, I’ve spent years confronting the very real threats posed by China, Russia, and other foreign adversaries. Tonight, President Trump selectively declassified intelligence to try to rewrite the history of an election he lost. Even his own document release does not support his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. It confirms what we’ve long known: foreign adversaries targeted our democracy, but there is no evidence they changed a single vote or altered the casting or counting of ballots. President Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square. If he cared about election security, he wouldn’t be putting unqualified political loyalists in charge of our intelligence agencies or weakening the agencies responsible for protecting our elections from foreign threats. Instead, he’s reviving conspiracy theories about mail voting, pushing voter suppression, and laying the groundwork for an unprecedented federal takeover of our elections—all while ignoring the real challenges facing American families.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (8th District of New York)

Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement:

Donald Trump has once again chosen to spew deliberate and dangerous lies because the economy is a disaster and he knows that the American people have had enough. He has cynically and corruptly decided to call into question our free and fair elections before a single ballot has been cast. Why? Republicans believe they need to cheat to win. 

The strength of our democracy depends on every single American showing up to vote for a brighter future. Thankfully, the framers of the Constitution saw fit to have our elections administered at the state and local level, precisely to prevent them from being manipulated by an unhinged President.

House Democrats will continue the fight to lower costs, make healthcare more affordable and protect the integrity of our elections. Change is coming to the United States of America. 

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Jesús Chuy García (IL-04)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump’s speech attempting to undermine the 2026 election:

 “Tonight’s unhinged speech is the beginning of Trump’s attempt to overthrow the 2026 midterm election and to smear and criminalize noncitizens. This is what our insecure, delusional President does: if he doesn’t like the outcome of an election, he does everything in his power to subvert it. While these debunked claims by Trump and his cronies may seem laughable, they are a dire threat to democracy in America. The January 6th insurrection showed the country and the world that Republicans in Congress lack the spine to stand up to Trump’s authoritarianism. Now is the time for communities nationwide to mobilize against a federal takeover of elections, ICE at polling sites, and Trump’s pathetic lies. Whether through filing lawsuits, educating voters, volunteering at polling sites, holding the media accountable, or other tactics, we all have a role to play in preserving our right to vote in the face of Trump’s ongoing assault on democracy.”

 

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09)

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) watched President Trump’s prime time East Room speech to the nation tonight and made the following statement:

“Donald Trump is obsessed with the 2020 election that dozens and dozens of audits and court rulings established he lost. Sowing doubt about election results, I fear, is preparation for attempting to undo the loss Republicans will suffer in the midterms this November. We need to be vigilant in recognizing his lies and standing up for democracy.”

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (38th District of CA)

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) released the following statement after President Trump addressed the nation regarding his disproven conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud:

“President Trump is reviving long-debunked conspiracy theories because he refuses to accept that he lost the 2020 election. Now he’s using those same lies as a pretext to interfere with the next election because he knows Republicans can’t defend their record.

“Americans don’t want more of Trump’s baseless conspiracy theories. They want to know how he will lower costs that are rising because of his illegal tariffs and the war in Iran. They want ICE to stop terrorizing our communities and killing people in the streets. And they want healthcare restored to the millions of Americans he took it away from to pay for tax breaks for himself and his billionaire friends.

“Trump has no answers because he and congressional Republicans created these problems. Instead, he’s falling back on his same tired, old playbook: lie about ‘stolen’ elections, undermine the next one and hope Americans stop focusing on the damage he’s doing.

“It won’t work because we won’t let him.”

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Hank Johnson (GA-04)

DECATUR, GA — “Voters are not going to be distracted by Trump’s release of what are massively redacted declassified files that fail to prove that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Voters remain focused on the facts that he and his wealthy friends are getting richer and richer as gas, groceries and housing cost are driving everyone else towards the poorhouse, while his war of choice against Iran spirals out of control. Trump is desperate, and we must be on guard to defeat his devious scheme to interfere with the administration of the upcoming elections to avoid the butt-kicking he is about to get from the voters.”
 

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (8th District of Illinois)

WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) warned today that the Trump Administration’s proposed cuts to American scientific research are undermining U.S. competitiveness with China, threatening America’s scientific leadership, and driving away top scientific talent during a House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party hearing on research security.

Questioning senior career officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Department of Energy (DOE), Krishnamoorthi highlighted the Administration’s proposed FY2026 budget cuts to each agency, including nearly a 60 percent reduction for NSF, a 40 percent reduction for NIH, and significant cuts to the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, including Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Each official confirmed the proposed funding levels reflected in their agencies’ own budget documents. Krishnamoorthi contrasted those reductions with OECD data showing China has surpassed the United States in research and development spending.

The Congressman said:

“Research security is obviously a national priority, but unfortunately, research is insecure not just because of external threats, but because of internal ones due to unprecedented cuts, posing, I think, an existential threat to our research. While President Trump wants to cut funding, China is investing. This spring, OECD showed that China has topped the U.S. in R&D spending. We’re killing the very research that we’re attempting to protect. And that’s wrong.”

Krishnamoorthi then highlighted what he described as the real-world consequences of the Administration’s cuts, citing canceled vaccine research, rising measles cases, the spread of New World screwworm, and Ebola before warning that the reductions were endangering Americans’ health.

Finally, Krishnamoorthi highlighted the experience of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Ardem Patapoutian, whose NIH grant was frozen before China offered to relocate his laboratory with guaranteed long-term funding. Citing a Nature poll showing that 75 percent of U.S. scientists are considering leaving the country, Krishnamoorthi warned that America’s research enterprise is being weakened from within while China actively recruits top scientific talent.

The Congressman concluded:

“Trump’s cuts are driving away talent. Trump’s cuts are making us less healthy. Trump’s cuts are leaving us with nothing left to steal. Research needs to be secure. But if there’s no research left to steal, what’s the point?” 

 

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (38th District of CA)

WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) released the following statement on President Trump imposing a 25 percent tariff on products imported from Brazil:

“President Trump’s Section 301 investigation into Brazil was never about addressing unfair trade practices. It was always a pretext for imposing new tariffs.

“When Trump first imposed sweeping tariffs on Brazil last year, he admitted they were political retaliation against Brazil for prosecuting former President Bolsonaro over his failed coup attempt— an effort that mirrored Trump’s own attack on our democracy. 

“After the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s illegal tariffs, including those on Brazil, he is now misusing Section 301 authority to reimpose the same tariffs on Brazil. Section 301 is meant to protect American workers and industries, not to be misused for political retaliation or to revive unconstitutional tariffs.

“These tariffs will not create jobs, lower prices or protect American interests. Instead, they are being used to advance Trump’s personal interests at the expense of American families and businesses. Congress must act to restore accountability and stop this reckless abuse of power.”

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