Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi

Official Twitter account of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) | Serving on @HouseIntelDems, @OversightDems, @CmteOnCCPDems

[Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @CongressmanRaja]

More than half of every dollar the typical worker has gained since 2022 is now being swallowed by higher debt payments. Families don’t need the Trump Administration telling them how great the economy is. They need lower costs and more money left in their pockets.
https://t.co/8AygxOrpID

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China has leverage because we have failed to reduce our dependence on Chinese critical minerals.
We should be making more of what we need here at home and working with our allies to build secure supply chains instead of remaining dependent on Beijing.

[Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @CongressmanRaja]

The EPA left microplastics out of its national drinking-water monitoring program.
That’s why I led 23 colleagues in calling for a full GAO review of EPA’s work on microplastics, what remains unfinished, and what’s holding further progress back.
Americans deserve answers about what’s in their water.

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The 988 “Press 3” crisis line for LGBTQ+ young people is back.
After the Trump Administration shut it down, I worked with allies and advocates to secure funding for its restoration and pressure the Administration to bring it back online.
Now we need to make sure it stays there.
https://t.co/C0iFdGg4wq

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Kash Patel has refused to rule out putting FBI agents at polling places and now DOJ is talking about sending up to 1,000 election monitors to polling places in the coming weeks.
Americans should be able to vote without federal law enforcement creating fear or intimidation around the process.

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Trump’s summit with Xi was amateur hour. China got a two-month trade truce. We got two pandas, with no meaningful progress on human rights, no comprehensive AI safeguards, and no pressure on Beijing over its support for Russia’s war machine.

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F-35 parts reportedly ended up in the hands of the Chinese government. That should never happen.
Earlier this week, I demanded answers from Secretary Hegseth on how this happened, what the national security consequences are, and what the Pentagon is doing to make sure it never happens again. https://t.co/kn4r2Z1pHF

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China is helping Iran target American troops while buying most of Iran’s oil.
President Trump should be pressing Xi Jinping on that directly and imposing consequences on the Chinese companies and banks helping Iran wage this war.

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F-35 parts bound for the United States were diverted to Hong Kong and reportedly ended up in the Chinese government’s hands.
That could help the CCP reverse engineer U.S. stealth technology.
I’m demanding Secretary Hegseth explain how this happened and secure our F-35 supply chain.

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We need to ban NDAs around data center development. Communities deserve to know what is being built next door and what it will cost them before a deal is signed, not after. Communities shouldn’t have to fight for the truth about what’s coming.

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Animals should not pay the price when federal enforcement falls short.
I reintroduced the bipartisan Animal Welfare Enforcement Improvement Act to strengthen inspections and veterinary care, increase transparency, and make sure those who violate animal protection laws face real consequences.

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We're talking about people trying to come to America legally, and the White House is celebrating keeping them out simply because they come from Muslim-majority countries.
This Islamophobia has no place in America. There should never be a religious test for who belongs here.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

Legal Immigration from Majority-Muslim Nations Was Cut 96% Since 2024

[Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @CongressmanRaja]

An AI emergency hotline with Beijing is useful but preventing the emergency in the first place is essential. AI can threaten our financial system, critical infrastructure, biological security, and even nuclear command and control. Those risks belong at the center of all future U.S.-China talks.

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Americans are worried about the risks of AI but President Trump’s response is to rename it “superintelligence,” while the Trump-Xi summit produced little more than an emergency hotline.
The goal should be preventing AI’s dangers, not just setting up a hotline to discuss them after the fact.

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Indian Americans are not an “Indian Question” to be solved. Treating any American community as a problem because of their ethnicity is racist, xenophobic, and fundamentally un-American.
We are a nation born of ideals, not bloodlines. No race, religion, or ancestry has a greater claim to America than another.
Indian Americans are as American as anyone. This country belongs to all of us.

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This week, @christopherrufo tackle the Indian Question.

Among other things, this episode cuts to the heart of longstanding foundational political disputes that are simply unreconcilable, but which can longer be brushed aside. Namely that some people (perhaps most people) prefer to live in a homogenous society, and as America tips toward a majority-minority country, that fundamental preference is under threat.

For a long time, liberals, who have more cosmopolitan preferences, have been able to pathologize the desire for homogeneity and subdue any explicit political effort to maintain a white majority in the country.

A great many conservatives are no longer willing to be silent on this question. They are going to actively assert their preferences, and Indians, while relatively small in total number are nonetheless the fasting growing foreign born demographic in the country and the most conspicuous element of the 21st century mass immigration regime, and are therefore the inevitable flashpoint for this debate.

*This episode we also took input from our Indian/South Asian friends @balajis, @razibkhan, @Indian_Bronson, and a secret 4th Indian.

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The United States cannot make Taiwan’s security a bargaining chip with Beijing. We should provide Taiwan the arms it needs for its self-defense. Putting those sales on the negotiating table only invites more aggression from China.

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Donald Trump cannot erase nearly $1 billion in funding Congress passed simply because he does not like how it is being spent.
The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. Republicans and Democrats alike should reject this illegal action. https://t.co/cvOK7ssfjr

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The Trump Administration is using a database known to wrongly flag American citizens as noncitizens to target voter rolls just weeks before an election.
Eligible Americans should not have to prove their citizenship again because the government’s database got it wrong. That is voter suppression.
https://t.co/s2vUv0kBuN

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Because of Trump's illegal war, gas prices are hitting families hard. I saw $6 gas advertised in Chicago recently. Those higher energy costs feed into higher prices across the economy and make everyday life more expensive.

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Today, we honor the Gold Star mothers and families who carry the unimaginable loss of a loved one who gave their life in service to our country.
Their sacrifice did not end when their loved one’s service did. Our nation owes them a debt we can never fully repay.