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Ritchie Torres
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Congressman (#NY15). Born and bred in the Bronx. Grew up in poverty. Product of public housing. https://Torres.nyc/
Proud to partner with Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson and the Mitchel Houses Tenant Association to serve warm meals to families whose lives have been upended by the building collapse at Mitchel Houses.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Proud to partner with Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson and the Mitchel Houses Tenant Association to serve warm meals to families whose lives have been upended by the building collapse at Mitchel Houses.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Proud to partner with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, State Senator Jamaal Bailey, Council Member Kevin Riley, and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, and the YMCA to distribute turkeys in the Northeast Bronx.
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Proud to partner with State Senator Jamaal Bailey to distribute turkeys at the Rain Senior Center in Wakefield.
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Proud to partner with Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Council Member Althea Stevens, and Assembly Member Chantel Jackson to distribute turkeys in the South Bronx.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Team Torres distributed turkeys in the Northeast Bronx.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Proud to partner with Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Assembly Member George Alvarez, and Council Member Oswald Feliz to distribute turkeys in the South Bronx.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Team Torres distributed turkeys in the Northeast Bronx.
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Proud to partner with Assembly John Zaccaro to distribute turkeys at Pelham Parkway Houses in the Northeast Bronx.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Serving food to families in need at the United Christian Baptist Church in the Northeast Bronx.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Proud to partner with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, State Senator Jamaal Bailey, Council Member Kevin Riley, and Bronx BP Vanessa Gibson to hold a relief drive in support of Jamaica.

For the Bronx, Jamaica is not only an ally of the US. It’s family.
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I held a meeting with Bronx seniors regarding the need to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The so-called deal is a fundamental failure.

It fails to prevent 24 million Americans from seeing their premiums more than double.

It fails to prevent 4 million Americans from losing their healthcare altogether.

It fails to prevent hospitals in America from losing $30 billion in funding.
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Why would any Democrat surrender unconditionally to Donald Trump after overwhelming Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia?

Instead of bailing out Trump politically, we should hold him accountable.
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For Donald Trump, starving 42 million Americans of food is not a tragedy but a strategy.

The refusal to fully fund SNAP makes a mockery of the very Christian values that Trump pretends to espouse.
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Democrats will win back the House in 2026 on the strength of one powerful message: affordability.

The 2025 elections — the pre-midterms — were a resounding rejection of Donald Trump’s failing presidency, which has crippled working families and small businesses with ever-higher costs.
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Donald Trump is a bully. If you allow yourself to be bullied, then you will continue to be bullied.

The strongest response to a bully like Donald Trump is to stand up to him, rather than surrender unconditionally.
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For Donald Trump, starving 42 million Americans of food is not a tragedy but a strategy.

The refusal to fully fund SNAP makes a mockery of the very Christian values that Trump pretends to espouse.
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A mayoral commitment to fixing New York City’s broken property tax system is long overdue.

Property tax reform would create a fairer redistribution of wealth to the benefit of the Bronx, where both renters and homeowners bear far higher effective tax burdens despite far lower property values.
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If I could vote against the raw deal twice, I would.

A “deal” that requires Republicans to concede nothing and Democrats to concede everything is not a deal. It is an unconditional surrender.

That is not a negotiation. It’s a complete capitulation.
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The agreement between Senate Republicans and a few Democratic defectors is a raw deal for 24 million American families who are about to see their health care premiums more than double.
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The agreement between Senate Republicans and a few Democratic defectors represents a raw deal, one that dooms working families to a massive health care premium shock.

Unconditional surrender to Donald Trump is not only bad policy—it’s bad politics.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If this is the so-called 'deal,' then I will be a no.

That’s not a deal. It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Donald Trump is treating 42 million Americans who depend on SNAP for their survival as bargaining chips in a cynical game of political extortion.

SNAP is not a ransom note — it is a right.
Every American has a legal right to put food on the table and feed their family.
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Donald Trump is treating 42 million Americans who depend on SNAP for their survival as bargaining chips in a cynical game of political extortion.

SNAP is not a ransom note — it is a right.
Every American has a legal right to put food on the table and feed their family.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM