Ritchie Torres
@ritchietorres.bsky.social
Congressman (#NY15). Born and bred in the Bronx. Grew up in poverty. Product of public housing. https://Torres.nyc/
I held a meeting with Bronx seniors regarding the need to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I held a meeting with Bronx seniors regarding the need to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Instead of bailing out Trump politically, we should hold him accountable.
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 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.
Instead of bailing out Trump politically, we should hold him accountable.
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.
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
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.
The refusal to fully fund SNAP makes a mockery of the very Christian values that Trump pretends to espouse.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The strongest response to a bully like Donald Trump is to stand up to him, rather than surrender unconditionally.
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.
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
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.
The refusal to fully fund SNAP makes a mockery of the very Christian values that Trump pretends to espouse.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 is a raw deal for 24 million American families who are about to see their health care premiums more than double.
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.
Unconditional surrender to Donald Trump is not only bad policy—it’s bad politics.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 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.
Unconditional surrender to Donald Trump is not only bad policy—it’s bad politics.
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.
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
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.
That’s not a deal. It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 4, 2025 at 5:54 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.
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.
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.
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 3, 2025 at 10:02 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.
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.
If Timcast “News” undertook the barest amount of journalism, it would know that SNAP is not a discretionary program but an entitlement under federal law.
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If Timcast “News” undertook the barest amount of journalism, it would know that SNAP is not a discretionary program but an entitlement under federal law.
The greatest innovation of our time is not AI — it’s GLP-1.
Obesity is declining. And as obesity declines, so too will diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and the many cancers linked to excess weight.
Making Ozempic for All a reality in America would revolutionize public health.
Obesity is declining. And as obesity declines, so too will diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and the many cancers linked to excess weight.
Making Ozempic for All a reality in America would revolutionize public health.
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The greatest innovation of our time is not AI — it’s GLP-1.
Obesity is declining. And as obesity declines, so too will diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and the many cancers linked to excess weight.
Making Ozempic for All a reality in America would revolutionize public health.
Obesity is declining. And as obesity declines, so too will diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and the many cancers linked to excess weight.
Making Ozempic for All a reality in America would revolutionize public health.
I had the honor of meeting Sharing Excess and their partners at the Hunts Point Produce Market to discuss their creative vision for transforming food waste into food abundance.
Sharing Excess has converted tens of millions of pounds of food waste into meals that have fed over 10 million people.
Sharing Excess has converted tens of millions of pounds of food waste into meals that have fed over 10 million people.
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I had the honor of meeting Sharing Excess and their partners at the Hunts Point Produce Market to discuss their creative vision for transforming food waste into food abundance.
Sharing Excess has converted tens of millions of pounds of food waste into meals that have fed over 10 million people.
Sharing Excess has converted tens of millions of pounds of food waste into meals that have fed over 10 million people.
My comment to the New York Times:
“The Bronx has fallen victim to Amtrak’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy, which has indefinitely delayed the expansion of Metro North from the Bronx to Penn Station.”
“The Bronx has fallen victim to Amtrak’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy, which has indefinitely delayed the expansion of Metro North from the Bronx to Penn Station.”
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My comment to the New York Times:
“The Bronx has fallen victim to Amtrak’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy, which has indefinitely delayed the expansion of Metro North from the Bronx to Penn Station.”
“The Bronx has fallen victim to Amtrak’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy, which has indefinitely delayed the expansion of Metro North from the Bronx to Penn Station.”
The building collapse at Mitchel Houses was likely caused by a highly flammable fossil-fuel boiler system connected to a chimney.
Electrifying heating systems in public housing developments like Mitchel Houses is not only a climate solution. It’s a strategy for fire prevention.
Electrifying heating systems in public housing developments like Mitchel Houses is not only a climate solution. It’s a strategy for fire prevention.
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The building collapse at Mitchel Houses was likely caused by a highly flammable fossil-fuel boiler system connected to a chimney.
Electrifying heating systems in public housing developments like Mitchel Houses is not only a climate solution. It’s a strategy for fire prevention.
Electrifying heating systems in public housing developments like Mitchel Houses is not only a climate solution. It’s a strategy for fire prevention.
I had the honor of speaking at the 67th Anniversary of the NAACP Williamsbridge Branch in the Northeast Bronx.
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I had the honor of speaking at the 67th Anniversary of the NAACP Williamsbridge Branch in the Northeast Bronx.
I stand with the family of 20-month-old River Wilson, who tragically drowned in a swimming pool at a residential day care. Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death among toddlers.
October 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I stand with the family of 20-month-old River Wilson, who tragically drowned in a swimming pool at a residential day care. Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death among toddlers.
Donald Trump is not thinking about the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to rise by an average of 114%.
He is thinking about George Santos.
He is thinking about George Santos.
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Donald Trump is not thinking about the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to rise by an average of 114%.
He is thinking about George Santos.
He is thinking about George Santos.
Donald Trump governs like a mobster — all but threatening New York families:
“Nice food assistance you’ve got there. It would be a shame if something happened to your ability to feed your children.”
“Nice food assistance you’ve got there. It would be a shame if something happened to your ability to feed your children.”
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Donald Trump governs like a mobster — all but threatening New York families:
“Nice food assistance you’ve got there. It would be a shame if something happened to your ability to feed your children.”
“Nice food assistance you’ve got there. It would be a shame if something happened to your ability to feed your children.”