Dear Neighbors,
I hope this message finds you well. As always, if you have questions or concerns, please contact my office by calling (847) 413-1959, emailing me at [email protected], or sending a message through my website at https://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/contact/email. For more frequent updates, I encourage you to follow me on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi addresses VA employees and speaks about the importance of standing up for unions and veterans.
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Last week, I joined veterans, nurses, doctors, and union workers at the Jesse Brown VA Hospital to rally against actions that put the quality of veterans’ care at risk. The termination of union contracts for 80 percent of VA workers and plans to cut up to 80,000 jobs nationwide, including hundreds here in Illinois, threaten to undermine the very people who deliver care to our veterans every day. The VA is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, serving more than nine million veterans nationwide and over 300,000 here in Illinois. It provides specialized, high-quality care designed specifically for veterans’ needs — care that no private system can replicate. The path forward must be to strengthen and expand the VA, not to weaken its workforce or pave the way for privatization.
Veterans cannot receive the care they deserve if the doctors, nurses, and staff who serve them are silenced or pushed out. Undermining the workforce erodes patient safety and breaks America’s promise to those who have sacrificed for our country. In Congress, I will continue working to reverse these cuts, restore workers’ rights, and fully fund the VA so every veteran receives the care they have earned. Our veterans fought for us. Now we must fight for them.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi discusses the need to release the Epstein files. (Click the image above to watch the full interview.)
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On Monday, the House Oversight Committee, where I’ve been pressing for transparency, deposed former Attorney General William Barr on the Jeffrey Epstein case. His four hours of testimony revealed little, which is why we must depose witnesses like Alex Acosta and demand the full, unredacted Epstein files. This case is not about politics, as President Trump claims. It is about the sex trafficking of potentially thousands of children and teenagers and how a wealthy predator evaded justice. The victims, and the American people, deserve the truth.
Instead, President Trump is fighting transparency by slow-walking the release of documents and obstructing our investigation. At the same time, he is hurting working families with the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which guts Medicaid and SNAP to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
I will keep fighting on both fronts: exposing the truth in the Epstein case and defending the programs Illinois families rely on every day. You can watch my full CNN interview on the Epstein files here.
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The Congressional App Challenge is the official computer science competition of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since its launch in 2013, more than 50,000 students from 374 congressional districts across all 50 states and five U.S. territories have participated—making it the largest student coding competition in the nation. This competition is a unique opportunity to develop coding skills, unleash creativity, and design innovative solutions to real-world challenges.
I’m proud to announce that my office is participating in the 2025 Congressional App Challenge. Now through the end of October, middle and high school students of all coding skill levels in Illinois’s 8th Congressional District are encouraged to take part. Learn more and get started here.
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