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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had a wonderful time bringing Bronx-based faith leaders to Washington, D.C. We toured the United States Capitol and attended the annual faith breakfast hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I had a fun time handing out free ice cream at the Concourse Village Family Day in the South Bronx.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I delivered $500,000 for the Webster PAL, one of the most vital community centers in the South Bronx. Youth investment is one of the most effective forms of public safety—keeping our young people engaged, off the streets, and away from the entanglements of gangs and gun violence.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I stopped by Webster Houses Family Day in the South Bronx.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you to Governor Hochul for delivering nearly $10 million for a cath lab at Lincoln Hospital. Without a cath lab, Bronx patients experiencing a major heart attack would have to be transferred to Manhattan. I fought for the funding. Governor Hochul delivered for the people of the Bronx.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I stopped by the Sedgwick Houses Family Day event in the West Bronx.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was honored to join the Bronx community in celebrating the public service of the NYPD at National Night Out.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I stopped by the Saint Mary’s Park Family Day event in the South Bronx.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Congressman George Latimer and I conducted an oversight inspection of the Delaney Detention Center. The overwhelming majority of the detainees held there have no criminal history. None. The Trump administration is squandering $1 billion on a detention facility that should not even exist.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I stopped by the Teller Avenue Family Day event in the South Bronx.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Having Russell Vought as CFPB Director is like having a pope who doesn’t believe in Catholicism. If you don’t believe in consumer protection, why lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Russell Vought is wrong. 187 years before Project 2025, the Supreme Court emphatically rejected Russell Vought’s theory that a president has the constitutional authority to suspend spending laws enacted by Congress.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Russell Vought has repeatedly asserted that Donald Trump has the power to suspend spending laws enacted by Congress. I asked Mr. Vought whether, under his theory, the President could unilaterally defund the DOD, the Supreme Court, Social Security, and Medicare. He refused to answer.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The notion of an authoritarian President accepting a $400 million gift from a foreign monarch would have been utterly horrifying to the founding fathers, who sought to protect the presidency from corrupting foreign influence.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I stood with SEIU 1199 and BX leaders to oppose the termination of TPS. Donald Trump accused Haitian immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.” Yet the Supreme Court insists there’s no evidence of racial animus. Its decision legitimizes racial discrimination against Black immigrants.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I had the honor of celebrating the installation of community solar panels across a portfolio of more than 70 properties in the Bronx. These installations will reduce the electricity supply charges on ConEd bills by 20% for low-income families. Lower energy costs. Cleaner air. A greener Bronx.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

There is no contradiction between July 4th and Juneteenth. All Americans should take pride in both. July 4th celebrates the founding promise of equality and liberty for all. Juneteenth celebrates the enforcement of our founding promise. Both are chapters in the ever-unfolding American Revolution.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Donald Trump ran for President promising to drain the swamp. Instead, he became the swamp. The acceptance of a $400 million Qatari Air Force One has revealed his presidency for what it is and has always been: a cesspool of corruption.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The greatest scandal is not that Donald Trump is failing to avoid the appearance of corruption. The greatest scandal is that he is not even trying. His acceptance of a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar—a “palace in the sky”—is the latest chapter in the unfolding story of a corrupt presidency.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I had the honor of joining State Senator Jamaal Bailey and Council Member Kevin Riley at a luncheon celebrating the fathers of the Northeast Bronx. I am reminded of the words of C. S. Lewis: “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Concourse Village is the largest housing cooperative in the South Bronx. Since 2019, I have delivered $11,250,000 in capital investment for Concourse Village, which houses 5,000 Bronx residents. I joined the Concourse Village Board in announcing a new investment of $3,150,000.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I had the privilege of speaking to Bronx youth about the importance of civic engagement at the annual Bronx Community Action Team, organized by Phipps Neighborhoods. My own journey in civic engagement began at the age of 16. You’re never too young to make your presence felt in your community.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The far-right assault on the Voting Rights Act threatens the greatest rollback in Black congressional representation since the collapse of Reconstruction. Juneteenth is not only a celebration of Black freedom. It is a call to defend it.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Concourse Village is the largest housing cooperative in the South Bronx. Since 2019, I have delivered $11,250,000 in capital investment for Concourse Village. I joined the Concourse Village Board in announcing a new investment of $3,150,000 to modernize the aging pipes at Concourse Village.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Proud to invest $833,000 in the Hudson Oyster Project, which will construct a large-scale oyster reef to improve the health of the lower Hudson River. The new reef will restore habitats, improve water quality, and strengthen coastal resilience against storms and flooding.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I had the honor of attending Lincoln Hospital’s annual Juneteenth event in the South Bronx. At the event, I announced a $350,000 investment in gun violence prevention.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I am proud to announce that we have secured $3 million for security lighting at Andrew Jackson Houses, a public housing development in the South Bronx. The project has not only been fully funded but also completed on time and on budget. Lighting is not a luxury. It is a necessity for public safety.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I am heartbroken over the passing of a civil rights hero: Clarence B. Jones, who served as counsel and close confidant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a co-organizer of the March on Washington, and a co-writer of the immortal “I Have a Dream” speech. May his memory be a blessing.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In the South Bronx, about 40% of residents lack broadband access at home. That is why I partnered with the Mayor, HPD, and NYPL to secure $2 million in federal funding to bring free broadband to the Bronx. Our $2 million investment will save 2,000 Bronx families nearly $1.7 million per year.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I am proud to have secured $700,000 in federal funding to modernize the library at Hostos Community College, which serves more than 6,000 students. This will be the first renovation of the library since it was built in 1990—36 years ago

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I am proud to have secured $350,000 for violence interrupters in the South no Bronx. Based in Lincoln Hospital, violence interrupters from Guns Down Life Up reach out to at-risk youth in the hopes of steering them away from gangs and guns.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I am proud to join @MetroIAF in advocating for the expansion of the OCC, a federally empowered watchdog that holds NYCHA accountable for making timely repairs in public housing. The 300,000 New Yorkers who live in public housing have a fundamental right to safe, decent, and affordable housing.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/05/2026

Internet is a basic need. Proud to announce that we are expanding NYC’s Neighborhood Internet Program, which provides free, high-speed broadband to New Yorkers living in affordable housing. Now an additional 2,000 NYC households will gain access to high-speed broadband across the Bronx.

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EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Mamdani and Rep. Ritchie Torres announce $2M to expand high-speed internet in The Bronx and Upper Manhattan – Bronx Times

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres announced a $2 million federal investment to expand free high-speed internet access for low-income New

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

After senselessly keeping DHS closed for 75 days for no reason at all, House Republicans have finally relented. The House just passed legislation reopening DHS without funding ICE or CBP. A hard-fought win by House Democrats under the leadership of Hakeem Jeffries.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My statement on the Supreme Court’s Assault on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act:

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A newly created anonymous account on Polymarket placed a $32,000 bet just 12 minutes before Donald Trump’s ceasefire announcement. When an anonymous trader makes a perfectly timed trade minutes before a market-moving presidential statement, it bears the hallmarks of insider trading.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I am fighting to pass legislation that would ban federal insider trading on prediction markets.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Donald Trump’s presidency has become a cesspool of corruption, with insider trading on a scale never seen before.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight.” Donald Trump is so dangerously unhinged that the 25th Amendment should be invoked, and America should rid itself of his psychotic presidency, which is descending into new depths of derangement.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I am proud to partner with the @MTA and @NYC_DOT in announcing $15 million for the replacement of Transport Refrigeration Units (TRUs), a leading source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the South Bronx. Replacing 1000 TRUs is the equivalent of removing 330,000 daily truck trips.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

No district has a greater stake in Medicaid than mine—about 70% of my constituents depend on it. Gutting health care to bankroll war and mass deportation is morally indefensible.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I spoke about the need to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to senior citizens in the Northwest Bronx. There is no one to whom we owe a greater debt than our elders.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Referring to the Mayor as a “cockroach” is reprehensible and racist. Political differences are never an excuse for dehumanization.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

America is the wealthiest nation on earth. Yet 47 million Americans are struggling to put food on the table. In a nation as wealthy as ours, hunger is not an inevitability. It is a choice. Donald Trump has chosen to defund SNAP by $200 billion.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Donald Trump is more concerned with oil in Venezuela and minerals in Greenland than he is with lowering prices here in America. He promised to put America first but instead he’s putting American families last.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I had the honor of delivering the keynote address at Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s annual breakfast in the Northeast Bronx. Over 300 attendees.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

One could easily imagine Justice Neil Gorsuch writing the same concurrence if a Democrat were in the White House. Can the same be said of Justices Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas?

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