Yesterday, I convened a community roundtable in the Northeast Bronx to address the epidemic of gun violence facing our borough, city, and nation.

🚨 Home health funding is under attack. This care keeps seniors, people with disabilities, and vulnerable communities safe at home. That’s why I united the overwhelming majority of the bipartisan NY delegation to oppose the administration’s plan to slash it. #ProtectHomeHealth

Congratulations to Perrigo Teamsters on winning a fair contract. You stood strong, fought for respect on the job, and secured real raises and retirement protections. That’s what collective power is all about. Proud to stand with you.

As a product of public housing, the affordability crisis is not abstract to me. Millions depend on affordable housing programs to survive. We must protect and expand them.

The Bronx is home to one of the largest and most dynamic Latino communities in America. Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the families and neighbors whose hard work, culture, and contributions strengthen our borough and our nation.

Head Start is a lifeline for low-income families, especially Bronxites who pay the highest share of their income on child care in NYC. The Trump administration’s push to defund it would devastate working families and the providers who serve them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

On this day, we remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001. We honor the first responders who ran toward danger, the families who carry unimaginable loss, and the resilience of New York and our nation. We will never forget.

Honored to join @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social today in introducing a resolution to designate September as National African Immigrant Heritage Month. African immigrant communities enrich New York City and America every day. It is past time we recognize their extraordinary contributions.

Trigger leads are predatory and invasive. Today, we ended them. The bipartisan Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act puts homebuyers back in control of their personal information.

The Bronx lost a beautiful young soul, River Wilson, to a broken daycare system. I’m introducing River’s Law, which would: 🚫 Eliminate pools from residential daycares 🔔 Install safety alarms to protect children We must act to ensure a tragedy like this never happens again.

Heartbroken by the tragic shooting at Haffen Park. We mourn Jaceil Banks and hold 17-year-old Anthonaya Campbell in our prayers. No child should face this violence. As a son of the Bronx, I stand with families & neighbors in mourning, and continue the fight for a safer Bronx.

Wishing a joyful Jamaica Independence Day to all who celebrate, especially the vibrant Jamaican community in the Bronx. Your culture, resilience, and contributions are woven into the fabric of our borough. 🇯🇲

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is leading the charge to demand the release of the Epstein Files and joins Popok on a special Legal AF to brief our audience on what he calls an "extinction" moment for Trump and MAGA, and the Democrats holding Trump accountable to make sure it happens.

Torres: "Republicans are beginning to realize there is nobody in DC that has closer & longer ties to Epstein than Trump ... the most damning fact: Trump made Acosta, who gave a sweetheart plea deal to Epstein & to all co-conspirators, his sec of labor, which has jurisdiction over human trafficking"

Medicaid is the air we breathe.

Is it fair to subsidize luxury aircraft for billionaires at the cost of savagely defunding healthcare, food, and energy -- the essentials for working families?

Spoiler alert: it’s been a disaster.

Rep. Torres: "Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine and so far has failed. He promised to release the Epstein Files, so far has failed. He said he would never touch Medicaid, he's cutting it by a trillion dollars. His economic policy has wreaked havoc on the American economy."

Rep. Ritchie Torres: "What about the Epstein Files? The slogan of the Trump administration is 'Promises made, promises kept.' He made a promise to release the files, he should keep it."

Today, Senate Republicans voted to drastically cut funds for NPR and PBS, slashing over a billion dollars from public media that millions of Americans depend on.

Esta medida pondrá en riesgo a innumerables familias, incluyendo a muchos miembros de la comunidad garífuna en el Bronx que llegaron huyendo de la persecución y la devastación ambiental.

This move will put countless families at risk, including many members of the Garifuna community in the Bronx who came fleeing persecution and environmental devastation. We must stand together + fight to protect every family from unjust deportation at the hands of Donald Trump and his gang of thugs.

Rep. Torres: "I have a deeply felt obligation to speak out against hate — whether it's anti-Jewish bigotry or anti-Muslim bigotry. I'm in the process of drafting a resolution that would condemn Andy Ogles for...calling upon the AG to deport [Zohran Mamdani] simply because he's Muslim American."

NEWS: Rep. Ritchie Torres @repritchie.bsky.social is drafting a resolution condemning Rep. Andy Ogles for "racist rhetoric" and anti-Muslim "bigotry."

The so-called Big Beautiful Bill is the ugliest attack on the working people of the Bronx, New York, and America.

The so-called Big Beautiful Bill is an American nightmare pretending to be an American dream.

BREAKING: Congressman Ritchie Torres just exposed Republican Tim Burchett’s lies on Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill. This is amazing.

Rep. Ritchie Torres: In 2018, Arkansas put in place a work requirements program, causing 18,000 people to lose access to health care. The majority of those people were working people who were eligible for Medicaid.

Experience tells us that work requirements will simply cause people to lose healthcare -- they will simply bureaucratize Medicaid.

Torres to Burchett: "It's gonna be more agonizing for the 30,000 people who lose healthcare in your district, for the 15,000 people who lose SNAP in your district ... simply to fund tax cuts for the top one percent."

Weds. guest list: Katty Kay, Ali Vitali, Eugene Robinson, David Drucker, Danny Cevallos, Charles Coleman, Julia Ainsley, Joyce Vance, Jonathan Martin, Annie Lowrey, Rep. Ritchie Torres, Dave Weigel, Rev. Al Sharpton, John Cassidy, ctd...

I said what I said.

Looking forward to joining @kaitlancollins.bsky.social tonight at 9 pm to break down the disastrous so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

Billionaires like Elon Musk don't need tax breaks -- but the people of the Bronx need food. This bill is an absolute betrayal.

THE BRONX SAYS NO CUTS TO SNAP

“It’s deeply troubling to see someone who has benefited from civil rights protections turn around and try to strip them from others,” Rep. Ritchie Torres said.

Pride Month may be coming to a close, but our fight goes on. We're going to keep fighting year-round to protect the LGBTQI+ community—including our transgender siblings—from Trump and the GOP's relentless attacks on equality. Happy Pride, everyone. See you in July! ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Secretary Bessent’s move to erase sexual orientation and gender identity from EEO forms signals to LGBTQ+ federal employees that their government may no longer stand with them. That is a betrayal. www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

The Supreme Court just made it easier for the administration to carry out its cruel and unconstitutional agenda by limiting the power of courts to block harmful policies nationwide.

Rep. Ritchie Torres joins Popok on Legal AF for a hard-hitting briefing on the Dems’ fight to stop Trump’s war on America: from hijacking California’s rights, gutting our privacy, defunding NY’s terror defense, to selling out U.S. Steel to Japan. Don’t miss it! Full conversation below:

Congress should embark on an Article I project—a bold reassertion of its constitutional primacy.

I fully support reasserting Congress’s war powers. If there is a serious effort to reclaim those powers, I would vote for it—because the principle at stake is larger than any single conflict.

I had a fantastic time at South Bronx United yesterday, an incredible organization using soccer to empower young people on and off the field. From college prep to workforce training at the Clubhouse Café, SBU is changing lives and building a stronger Bronx. ⚽💪🏽

I love town halls. Earlier this month, I joined the Ben Franklin Reform Democratic Club to hear directly from my constituents. Your voices shape my work in Washington, and I’m here to make sure you’re heard.

The Comptroller's arrest by ICE agents at an immigration courthouse while he was merely accompanying someone out of a hearing is a grotesque perversion of justice. This is not law enforcement; it’s political intimidation and an attempt at silencing dissent.

Had a great meeting and tour today with the leadership of Lincoln Hospital — a lifeline for the South Bronx. Federal funding is critical to keeping hospitals like Lincoln strong, so they can continue delivering quality care to the communities that need it most.

At a time when terrorism, cyberattacks, and extreme weather events are converging to create an increasingly complex threat environment, the Trump budget would gut the very systems we depend on to detect, deter, and respond to those threats effectively—not just in New York but nationwide.

The Trump budget, if enacted, would leave America’s largest city woefully unprepared to prevent and respond to a second 9/11. The Appropriations Committee must reject a Trump budget that puts America’s homeland security not first but last—to the detriment of all Americans.

Scooplet: A group of New York Democrats on Capitol Hill is warning that President Trump’s proposed budget would leave New York City “woefully unprepared to prevent and respond to a second 9/11.” Read the letter to top House Appropriators >> ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...