Senator Jessica de la Cruz

@RISenateGOP Leader and State Senator representing RI's 23rd District - North Smithfield, Burrillville, and Glocester. Proud daughter of immigrants. 🇺🇸🇵🇹

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

If we haven't met yet, I'm your state senator representing Burrillville, Glocester, and North Smithfield.

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

Happy Columbus Day! 🇺🇸 🇮🇹

A few years ago, while in Seville Spain, I visited its historic cathedral. There, I was fortunate enough to see the tomb of Christopher Columbus - an experience that reminded me of the remarkable journeys that shaped our world.

[RI Senate Republicans @RISenateGOP]

Happy National Rhode Island Day!
Raise a glass of coffee milk, enjoy some stuffies, clam cakes, and hot wieners, and celebrate all that is unique to our beautiful Ocean State!
@JessicaforRI

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

Same story, different day: RI taxpayers are paying too much and getting too little.

A new RIPEC report finds that “a concentrated focus on bridge construction has led to nation-leading debt burdens, underfunded routine maintenance, and non-interstate secondary roads that rank worst in the country”.

Decades of one party rule means Rhode Islanders are getting bottom tier roads for top tier pricing.

[WPRI 12 @wpri12]

The study follows a Target 12 investigation earlier this year that found Rhode Island has had the roughest state roads in the country for at least a decade, even as RIDOT's budget doubled to over $1 billion.

@TedNesi has the story: https://t.co/2dYu01YM6I

[RI Senate Republicans @RISenateGOP]

RI is 1 of only 12 states with an estate tax - taking up to 16% of a legacy you already paid taxes on.

RI Senate Republicans are fighting to reduce this unfair double-taxation. Your life's work belongs to your family, not the government.

@JessicaforRI

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

Providence is a capital city - not a socialist experiment.

Ideology has a price tag.

[Tim White @TimWhiteRI]

JUST IN: In a blow to the hospitality industry in RI, the US Conference of Mayors has decided not to host its annual meeting in Providence.

The event was to be hosted at the RI Convention Center and was expected to draw hundreds to the region in June.

https://t.co/Ul7wvxOTQ6

[RI Senate Republicans @RISenateGOP]

Senator Rogers:
“Let’s set goals we can meet, keep pace with our neighboring states & be honest with people about the costs-ECRI & I disagree about how to get there-not about whether clean air & clean water matter. Affordability & reliability come first”
https://t.co/L0r1oCbdkG

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

The big sign was put back out by the homeowner. ❤️ They had saved it from the last election and brought it back out this year. I happened to see it when dropping off signs in the area.

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

Perfect weather for canvassing and delivering signs! As always, I loved the conversations along the way and am incredibly grateful for all the support.

[Sue Cienki @rigopncw]

@esanzi In RI the state has been controlled by democrats for close to 90 years, people complain about taxes, energy , housing , healthcare and yet vote for the same party that got us into this mess and now are going for the socialist wing further left
Voting against their interest

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

A lot of people talk about socialism’s ideals, but skip where it actually comes from.

Marx wrote about a society changing in two steps: a “transition” step, then a “final” step. He mostly just called both of them “communism.” Lenin gave the two steps clearer names. “Socialism” for the transition, “communism” for the final stage.

“Socialism,” as Lenin defined it, was never meant to be the end point. It was the transition. The goal was always full state or collective control: no private property, no free market.

History shows, time and time again, what that transition actually looks like. Centralized economic planning, suppressed dissent, economic collapse, and authoritarian control.

So when someone says “socialism hasn’t been tried properly,” look at the countries that tried it. The Soviet Union, Mao’s China, and others. None of them reached some peaceful “final stage.” They got stuck in the transition, indefinitely, with all the state control and none of the prosperity or freedom that was promised.

That’s not what our founding fathers envisioned. Our system was built on private property and individual liberty, on purpose, because it’s what allowed the most people to actually prosper.

[RI Senate Republicans @RISenateGOP]

25 years after 9/11, our memory of the lives lost remains sharp and our gratitude for heroic first responders never fades. We stand with the families still carrying this weight and the service members fighting terror worldwide. We will never forget. 🇺🇸 @JessicaforRI

[RI Senate Republicans @RISenateGOP]

Senator Gordon Rogers pushes back on unfunded state mandates: Year after year, the state government passes laws requiring local communities or schools to do something but provides zero funding to pay for it. They get the credit, you get the bill.
@JessicaforRI

[RI Senate Republicans @RISenateGOP]

Senator Gordon Rogers knows our kids' safety shouldn't be impeded by state bureaucracy.
Watch the full clip to see how we can make this school year successful and safe.
@JessicaforRI

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

@DavidAHolley Happy Birthday 🎂

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

America learned this lesson nearly 400 years ago.

Plymouth’s early experiment with communal ownership failed. When the colonists shifted toward private property and individual responsibility, the colony began to thrive.

The lesson? We’ve already tried socialism under the best of intentions and circumstances and it failed miserably.

Intelligent people and governments learn from past mistakes and don’t repeat them.

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

Today, Rhode Islanders celebrate the end of WW2 with the unconditional surrender of the Empire of Japan. The official ceremony to surrender happened on the USS Missouri and took only 30 minutes. America’s greatest generation secured that victory through great sacrifice so today we will remember and celebrate that historic event. God bless them and God bless America. 🇺🇸

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

A Rhode Islander sent me his receipt from Home Depot this morning

Normally, sales tax is
MA 6.25%
RI 7%

Today & tomorrow:
MA 0%
RI 7%

MA is telling you to shop.
RI is telling you to pay up.

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

Maybe you’ve noticed the new cameras popping up everywhere. They’re called flock cameras and they weigh public safety concerns with government overreach.

These aren’t speed cameras that just capture your license plate in a school zone. Flock cameras have the ability to capture where your vehicle is traveling and store that information in the cloud, and combined with AI, this can super charge government surveillance and lead to government overreach.

It raises other questions as well: Who has access to our whereabouts, and what limits are in place for accessing that data—including Flock employees and law enforcement? And as a lawmaker, when did the public ever give it’s consent to this?

I understand the argument that Flock cameras can help solve crimes. But when does a tool for public safety become a tool for government surveillance?

Are Flock cameras a necessary security tool or a step too far?

[RI Senate Republicans @RISenateGOP]

Senator @JessicaforRI on flock cameras.

Government overreach or necessary safety measure? What are your thoughts?

[RI Senate Republicans @RISenateGOP]

Senate Minority Whip Gordon Rogers joins @GeneValicenti to talk about auditing RI voter rolls.
@wpro @JessicaforRI

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

Recently, Democrat candidates for Rhode Island Attorney General made several claims about guns, semiautomatic firearms, and the Second Amendment.

There was a lot of misinformation, but one candidate’s comments were particularly inaccurate and misleading.

In this video, I fact-check those claims and explain why precision matters - especially for someone seeking an office sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution.