Dear Neighbors,
I hope this message finds you well. As always, if you have questions or concerns, please contact my office by calling (847) 413-1959, emailing me at [email protected], or sending a message through my website at https://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/contact/email. For more frequent updates, I encourage you to follow me on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi meets with participants of Sunday’s Hands Across Chicagoland rally where he spoke out against the Republican budget plan to cut Medicaid and SNAP.
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On Thursday, despite my bipartisan efforts to stop them, House Republicans narrowly pushed their budget through in the dead of night, using a series of backroom deals. This budget, which has President Trump’s full support, slashes over a trillion dollars from essential programs for seniors and working families like Medicaid, Medicare, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), all to fund $4 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans while exploding our deficit.
In Illinois alone, 1.7 million people rely on SNAP to put food on the table, and more than 3.4 million—one in four residents—depend on Medicaid for health care. Nationwide, this bill would rip health coverage from nearly 14 million Americans, put school meals at risk for over 18 million children, and threaten $500 billion in Medicare cuts that seniors can’t afford.
I know firsthand how vital these programs are. As a child, my family relied on SNAP and public housing to survive when my father lost his job. Through the generosity of the American people and the effectiveness of these safety nets, my father became an engineering professor, my brother a doctor, and I was able to dedicate my life to public service. These programs don’t create dependency; they create opportunity.
I will continue to oppose this reckless budget and any legislation that takes food, health care, or housing away from working families and seniors just to reward the wealthiest and well-connected. I will not stop fighting to protect the lifelines that gave my family, and so many others, the chance to achieve the American Dream of a middle-class life.
You can learn more about my opposition to the disastrous budget from the two videos I recorded during the overnight votes here and here, and you can also watch my MSNBC interview from the weekend here.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi speaks out against the Republican budget plan to slash Medicaid and SNAP funding for seniors and working families. (Click the image above to watch the full interview.)
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi shares Julia’s Medicaid story underscoring how damaging cuts to social safety net programs like Medicaid by Republicans would be. (Click the image above to watch the full opening statement.)
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On Tuesday, I participated in a joint House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services hearing on the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on clean energy policy and health care. During my opening statement and question line, I spoke about the need to protect critical social safety net programs such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and how unacceptable it is that House Republicans are proposing drastic cuts to these programs just to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest among us.
During the hearing, I shared the story of Julia, one of our neighbors in our congressional district living with disabilities. Julia has succeeded at her job in part due to a job training program funded through Medicaid. If funding for Medicaid is cut by Congressional Republicans, Julia will lose access to this program, and her mother worries about how else her life will be impacted. My full opening statement is available here, and my full question line is available here.
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The Congressional App Challenge is the official computer science competition of the House of Representatives. Since its inception in 2013, the Congressional App Challenge has grown to now include the participation of over 50,000 students across 374 Congressional Districts in 50 states and five U.S. territories. This year, I am pleased to announce that my office will be participating in the 2025 Congressional App Challenge. From now until October 30, my office will be hosting a Congressional App Challenge for middle school and high school students of all coding skills in Illinois’s 8th Congressional District. The Congressional App Challenge urges all students to enter the competition, as it encourages critical thinking and creativity for those of all computer science experience levels. To learn about the rules, prizes, and more, you can visit our website here.
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The best way to stay up to date on these issues beyond our newsletter is through my social media accounts, which I update multiple times each day. You can follow my Twitter (X) here, my Facebook page here, my Instagram here, my Threads here, and my Bluesky here. Thank you for staying engaged in our community.
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