I just voted to release the Epstein Files. The American people deserve to read them. IN FULL. Trump’s trying to hide something. It’s coming out—whether he likes it or not.

AI Chatbots have compromised user privacy, enabled suicide and eating disorders, and engaged minors with sexually explicit content.   Enough is enough. It's time for Congress to get serious about developing guardrails for this rapidly developing technology.

I’m demanding accountability after the Trump Administration illegally placed a civil servant on leave for being a “radical leftist” in violation of both the Constitution and the Whistleblower Protection Act.

The House GOP kept the House out of session during their govt shutdown when we SHOULD have been here working.

A quick update on what’s happening with the proposed closure of Monmouth Medical Center hospital in Long Branch, and what I’m doing to fight back.

Congratulations to my friend and New Jersey colleague @repherbconaway.bsky.social on his appointment to the Armed Services Committee this week!

Italian Americans say: basta with the tariffs, hands off our pasta!

Hundreds of Long Branch residents were shut out of last week’s state hearing on the closure of Monmouth Medical Center and left standing outside in the cold.

Good riddance, Dave! See you never!

Release the files. Trump could do this TODAY. Why hasn't he?

People across the country are paying more than $700 more this year on essentials than they were last year, and New Jerseyans are paying more than the average American. Trump is trying to deflect the blame. But his party controls the entire government—these are HIS policies.

Republican Senators shouldn't get to fleece the American people as a condition for ending their shutdown. I'm for axing the slush fund.

More than HALF your take-home pay. Imagine if that was what your insurance premium jumped to. Are you just supposed to hope and pray you never get sick? That’s what Republicans forced millions of Americans like this constituent to do. This is the kind of cruelty I voted against.

Don’t let RWJBarnabas get away with stripping Long Branch of our hospital WITHOUT OUR SAY! You’re invited to join me at the public hearing on the closure of Monmouth Medical Center hospital in Long Branch today and SPEAK OUT for care that serves our community WHERE WE ARE.

I voted NO to cutting your health care. I voted NO to sending your neighbors into bankruptcy because they can't pay for their health insurance. I voted NO to making your relatives sicker. Republicans simply could not care less.

Let’s cut through the noise: this is a DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. Republicans are making millions of Americans UNINSURED, and they don’t seem to care.

House Democrats are united. We're not letting Republicans jam their harmful deal that STEALS YOUR HEALTH CARE through the people’s House—we'll keep fighting.

Trump KNEW Epstein was trafficking girls—according to new reporting, he even spent HOURS with them.    What are Trump's rubber-stamp Republicans helping him cover up? Vote 218 on the Epstein discharge petition is coming TODAY.

It’s DAY 43 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT. Mike Johnson just ended the longest Republican vacation in history so he could join Senate Republicans in selling out the American people. I’m not playing along—I’m a NO.

They go on TV and talk like moderates. They go back home and sound reasonable. But then they go to the floor of the House and vote like extremists. Here’s a hot tip: Tom Kean and Jeff Van Drew will vote again to increase your health care costs this week.

It’s DAY 42 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT. Senate Republicans are trying to get the House to pass one of the worst “deals” in history. They shut the government down for over a month and the best thing they can come up with doesn’t even do anything to save your health care? Give me a break.

This Veterans Day, I’m grateful to all the veterans who served our country to protect the freedoms we hold dear as Americans.

Senate Republicans JUST pushed their shutdown deal through. When it gets to the House, I’m voting HELL NO.

Bonnie Watson Coleman blazed trails for New Jersey. She leaves behind a legacy of fighting for working families, from securing paid leave in the General Assembly to her fight to expand health care for pregnant women, as the first Black woman elected to the U.S. House from New Jersey.

William Ward, my constituent from Neptune, had been unable to receive his medals recognizing his distinguished service to our country. My office helped him get the recognition he deserves, and today, I participated in a ceremony where he received his medals.

We’re more than a week into open enrollment and about a month and a half into the Republican shutdown—and constituents are telling me that their new health insurance premiums are going to BURY them.

It’s DAY 41 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT. Republicans are tearing up every policy that keeps your health care with no concrete solution in sight to drive down costs. I’m not going to accept this “deal” from Senate Republicans, because it doesn’t protect your health care.

Senate Republicans are handing Trump a win and Americans a hospital bill. Nothing says “public service” like making health care unaffordable again. Letting ACA tax credits lapse means millions lose coverage and millions more pay more.

It’s DAY 39 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT. Republicans are putting Americans’ food security and safety in the air at risk because they don’t care if your costs skyrocket. It’s not hard to understand.

If they can’t afford food, let them eat Ozempic!

Why is Trump fighting to starve Americans?

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It’s DAY 38 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT. Another day of the longest government shutdown in American history, and another day of my constituents telling me that they can’t take the price hikes that Republicans forced on them—even though Trump says they don’t exist.

A constituent at last night’s SNAP telephone town hall asked me if the Republicans were stealing food by withholding SNAP benefits, because they can’t steal Americans’ health care. My point of view? That’s EXACTLY what’s happening.

Unaffordable health insurance, groceries, and rent—that’s the Republican agenda. I can’t think of anything more cruel.

It’s DAY 37 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT. Republicans are in DISARRAY because they finally are realizing the American people are BLAMING THEM FOR THEIR SHUTDOWN. It’s PAST time for them to come back to Washington to negotiate with Democrats to save health care.

Thank you to my colleagues— @pallone.house.gov @norcross.house.gov @repbonnie.bsky.social @menendez.house.gov @repnellie.bsky.social @repherbconaway.bsky.social —for joining together to fight for the SNAP benefits NJ needs. If you missed our town hall, watch here: www.facebook.com/RepLaMonica/...

Nancy Pelosi’s retirement marks the end of an era. Her fingerprints are on every major Democratic achievement of the last two decades—from the Affordable Care Act to the Inflation Reduction Act. These bills simply would never have become law without her leadership.

In Trump's America, hungry kids don't get fed, your insurance premium jumps by a thousand dollars, and you can't even fly home for Thanksgiving. Is this what Trump’s “winning” looks like?

It’s DAY 36 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT—the LONGEST SHUTDOWN IN AMERICAN HISTORY.   It’s shameful for our country that we’ve broken another shutdown record—but again, it’s happening under Trump. His party controls all three branches of government and it still can’t govern.

REMINDER: Trump is trying to go after your SNAP benefits. Tune in to my SNAP town hall with my New Jersey Democratic colleagues tonight.

My New Jersey Democratic colleagues and I are hosting a telephone town hall to keep you informed as Republicans try to attack SNAP in the middle of a shutdown THEY CREATED. Join us tomorrow.

24,000 households in my district rely on SNAP to put food on the table. The Trump Administration CHOSE to illegally withhold that food assistance from you. It took him a COURT RULING for him to acknowledge he had to pay it out—and he’s only doing it partially.

Noem and her lackies couldn’t find any proof that FEMA under the previous administration was biased in its life-saving work so they had to cook up a false report saying so.    Facts don’t care about your feelings—until the facts don’t line up with Trump’s dogma.

It’s DAY 35 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT. Tonight, we’ll reach the LONGEST GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN AMERICAN HISTORY because Republicans would rather make millions of people uninsured than keep the government functioning for the American people. It’s the height of cruelty.

A local grocery co-op in my district, beloved by Rutgers students and New Brunswick residents, received that same ominous email from Trump’s Department of Agriculture—DEMANDING that the co-op stop offering discounts to SNAP recipients.

Happy Election Day, New Jersey! It’s a great day to do your civic duty—polls close at 8:00 tonight.

Monmouth Medical Center hospital in Long Branch is once again ranked among the best hospitals IN THE STATE: and that’s because it provides high quality hospital care where Long Branch residents are.

MYTH: SNAP benefits can’t be paid during a shutdown. FACT: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a contingency fund designed for situations like these.

It’s DAY 34 of the REPUBLICAN RETREAT. Republicans shut down the government to force cruel cuts to your health care—illegally cutting millions off food assistance in their process. The result is clear—BLEED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DRY.