Rep. Ritchie Torres

The Cross Bronx Expressway has polluted the Bronx for generations and treated our community as expendable. That ends with us.

A district like the Bronx—diverse, dynamic, globally connected—speaks to the shared ties between the EU and US. I was glad to host @RepRitchie with EU Deputy Ambassadors to discuss strengthening transatlantic security and prosperity as well as the outlook ahead of the midterms.

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Thrilled to hear of Dylan Lopez Contreras's release. Dylan spent 10 months in federal detention for the crime of going to school, working as a delivery driver, and supporting his family. The Trump administration viewed him as a threat. In The Bronx, we call him what he is: the embodiment of the American dream.

This is bigotry from a sitting U.S. Senator, plain and simple. Take it down.

Colette Smith never smoked. But she got lung cancer anyway. A CT scan caught it early and saved her life. Now she's fighting so others get that same chance. That's why I introduced the Lung Cancer Screening Expansion Act: free annual scans, no insurance barriers, no red tape. Anyone can get lung cancer, and everyone deserves a shot at catching it early.

Our joint statement with Congressman Ritchie Torres and Council Member Althea Stevens on the recent PS/IS 218 incident.

It was an honor to welcome Speaker Emerita @SpeakerPelosi to the Bronx for Women’s History Month. As the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, she shattered ceilings and delivered historic progress for the American people. bxtimes.com/nancy-pelosi-w…

Under the Constitution, the separation of powers is clear: Congress has the power to declare war. The President, as Commander in Chief, has the power to command the military in a war that Congress has authorized. With respect to the war in Iran, authorization has neither been sought by the President nor granted by Congress. The President cannot constitutionally wage war without congressional authorization unless the nation has been attacked, is under attack, or faces an imminent attack. None of those conditions is present here. For too long, we have operated under a theory of presidential war powers so open-ended that it lacks anything resembling a limiting principle. The issue before us is not Democrat versus Republican, nor progressive versus conservative. It is Congress versus the President. It is Article I versus Article II. The Founders did not declare independence 250 years ago to replace one king with another. Nor did the Framers intend for the Commander in Chief to wield the unilateral war-making authority of an 18th-century English monarch. The notion that a President can plunge the United States into a regional war in one of the most volatile places on earth—without even briefing Congress, much less securing its authorization—is irreconcilable with the text, structure, and history of the Constitution. Instead of playing second fiddle to an imperial presidency, Congress must reclaim its rightful place as the first branch of government—exactly as the Founders intended. We are Article I for a reason. It is time we start acting like it.

The Cross Bronx Expressway has polluted the Bronx for generations and treated our community as expendable. That ends with us.

Happy first day of Women’s History Month! Today, @RepRitchie hosted an incredibly special celebration of trailblazing women including: @SpeakerPelosi, the first female Speaker of the U.S. House Miguelina Camilo, the first female Chief of Staff of the @NYCCouncil Simone Jones, my Deputy Chief of Staff and the Council’s first-ever Chief Equity Officer

Happy Dominican Independence Day! 🇩🇴

I brought Rev. John Udo-Okon of the South Bronx to the State of the Union to send a message to Republicans: faith without compassion is hollow. If you claim to be a person of faith, you should fight for the hungry, not cut the programs they rely on. bronx.news12.com/bronx-pastor-h…

ICE agents posing as police and using a fake missing-person story to enter a Columbia residence is a staggering abuse of power. This lawless administration is eroding trust, violating basic civil liberties, and destabilizing our city. When federal authorities trample the Constitution in the name of enforcement, they do not strengthen public safety. They undermine it, corrode trust in institutions, and make New York less safe.

Some news in response to this: Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) will introduce a bill expressly prohibiting regulated banks from collecting or disclosing customers’ immigration status in order to access financial services. Bill text TK.

Listen to the powerful words of Reverend John Udo-Okon, a South Bronx pastor who runs a mobile food pantry and is attending the State of the Union as my guest. “There is no love in taking food away from children. There is no love in putting our seniors who are on fixed income at risk. There is no love in taking away healthcare from the poor...God loves the poor.”

Under Trump's cuts, food costs are rising, pantries are going empty, and working families are struggling to put food on the table. Ritchie Torres is bringing Rev. John Udo-Okon to tonight's State of the Union to show that this is a choice Donald Trump made.