Ritchie Torres

It’s official. We won! It is the honor of a lifetime to be able to serve our community in Washington DC. The counting took longer than expected, but today the @BOENYC certified our victory & I want to say thank you..

What about the Epstein files?

SNAP is more than just policy. It’s deeply personal. It was the safety net that caught families like mine when we fell on hard times. But now, Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have slashed the SNAP budget by 30%, leaving working families and vulnerable Americans with…

The grand jury testimony is only a small subset of the Epstein files. Dear President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi: Release the Epstein files in your possession. You made a promise to the American people. Now keep it.

When America sneezes, the Bronx gets the flu. The Bronx is going to be the hardest hit by the trillion-dollar cut to Medicaid and the $300 billion-dollar cut to SNAP.

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."

I had the high honor of presenting a Congressional Record to the New Testament Temple of God in the Northeast Bronx. Under the leadership of Bishop Paul Peart, the church embodies a living faith—one that extends beyond the pews and into the streets. His spiritual guidance is not…

Jews make up just 2% of the U.S. population yet represent a disproportionate target of hate crimes in America. The violence never happens in a vacuum; it arises in an atmosphere where antisemitism is amplified across social media platforms and college campuses and then ultimately…

I am excited to join Fordham University, Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Assembly Member George Alvarez, and Council Member Oswald Feliz in breaking ground on a new Bronx Green Jobs Center. Green energy is the future of the Bronx. As the Bronx goes, so goes the rest…

I had a wonderful time speaking at the Third Avenue Street Festival. A number of constituents conveyed gratitude to me me for pressuring the City of New York to crack down on the open-air drug market in the Hub of the South Bronx.

There are thousands of American counties where the local hospital is both the largest health care provider and the largest employer. The so-called Big Beautiful Bill is going to be a death sentence for the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans.

I have been sounding the alarm about the sheer persistence of an open-air drug market in the Hub—the central commercial corridor of the South Bronx. Why should the people of the Bronx be forced to witness drug users injecting fentanyl in broad daylight, often in the presence of…

I had a wonderful time catching up with constituents at the Olinville Old Timers event in the Northeast Bronx.

The Republican Reconciliation law will bureaucratize Medicaid with layers and layers of paperwork requirements that cause eligible working people to lose health coverage.

I am excited to join Fordham University, Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Assembly Member George Alvarez, and Council Member Oswald Feliz in breaking ground on a new Bronx Green Jobs Center. Green energy is the future of the Bronx. As the Bronx goes, so goes the rest…

The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” will endanger the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans, and nowhere more so than in the Bronx. A trillion-dollar cut to Medicaid represents an existential threat to health care providers like the SBH Health System, which has been…

I had a wonderful time catching up with constituents at Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s annual barbecue in the Northeast Bronx. I also ran into America’s greatest advocacy organization: the AARP.

At a time when AI is straining the grid, House Republicans passed a law that endangers nearly 800 clean energy projects—enough to power 27 million homes. 75% of those projects are in GOP districts. Republicans are sabotaging jobs, investment, and electricity generation in their…

I stood with the residents of 2910 Wallace Ave, displaced by a fire 6 months ago, in calling upon the City of New York to take action against a landlord with a long record of neglect. Bronx families have been victimized by the fire and re-victimized by a broken system that fails…

As Co-Chair of the Albanian Issues Caucus in Congress and the proud representative of a vibrant Albanian diaspora in the Bronx, I had the honor of meeting with President Vjosa Osmani of Kosovo. The United States knows no greater ally in the Western Balkans than Kosovo.