Rep. Maxine Waters joins Ritchie Torres for NYCHA leaders’ roundtable on tenant concerns – Bronx Times Rep. Maxine Waters of California, who is serving her seventeenth term in Congress, made an appearance in the Bronx on April 19, joining a breakfast roundtable

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I'm proud to serve alongside Ranking Member Waters on the House Financial Services Committee and bring the lived experience of myself and my constituents to our work on affordable housing every single day.

We sat down with NYCHA tenant leaders from across NY-15 and heard directly about the conditions and challenges they face, and what federal disinvestment looks like on the ground every single day.

This past Sunday, it was an honor to welcome Congresswoman @repmaxinewaters.bsky.social to the South Bronx.

I'm calling on the CFTC to investigate. Americans deserve to know who knew what and when, and whether people in the President's orbit are cashing in on access during life-or-death global events.

Someone placed a $760 million bet on falling oil prices 20 minutes before Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz would re-open.

We have seen this pattern again and again. Massive, suspiciously well-timed trades keep preceding major geopolitical announcements.

Yesterday, I brought my esteemed colleague, @repmaxinewaters.bsky.social, to the South Bronx.

We met with NYCHA tenant leaders, sat down with the CEOs of minority-owned community banks, and joined nearly 100 Bronx residents for a fireside chat on Arthur Avenue.

Rep. Ritchie Torres calls on Community Preservation Corporation to help tenants of Ved Parkash buildings in foreclosure – Bronx Times U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres is calling on the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) to step in and help tenants living in distressed apartment buildings tied

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For years, Ved Parkash has subjected Bronx tenants to rats, fires, no heat, and zero repairs. Now, his buildings are in foreclosure.

The Community Preservation Corporation must make sure these properties never end up in the hands of another slumlord.

If they had advance knowledge, they need to be identified and held accountable.

The CFTC just opened an investigation into suspicious oil futures trades executed before President Trump's announcements on Iran, exactly as I demanded.

Whoever placed these trades was betting hundreds of millions of dollars on sensitive diplomatic decisions minutes before they were made public.

US Democratic lawmaker pushes for probe into oil trades after Reuters report U.S. Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres on Tuesday wrote to U.S. market regulators ​pushing for an investigation into large oil trades placed just ‌hours before the announcement of the U.S.-Iran ce...

Hours before the U.S.-Iran ceasefire was announced, traders placed an approximately $950 million position on declining oil prices.

Either that is the most fortunate coincidence in the history of energy markets, or someone had information they should not have had.

This morning, I had the honor of joining Lincoln Hospital to announce $350,000 in federal funding we secured for Guns Down, Life Up, a program that treats violence as a public health crisis and gives South Bronx youth the counseling, mentorship, and support they deserve.

He was a trailblazer for the Bronx in Washington, and a fierce advocate for Kosovo and the Albanian community at a time when few others were paying attention. My deepest condolences go to his family and all who loved him.

Eliot Engel was a giant of New York politics and one of the greatest champions the Bronx has ever had in Congress. He served for more than three decades with unyielding dedication, fighting for his constituents and standing up for democracy around the world.

As far as I’m concerned, $700,000 for Hostos is not an expense; it’s an investment in the future of the Bronx, and the return on that investment is the realization of the American dream.

Yesterday, I was proud to deliver $700,000 to Hostos Community College for their first library renovation in 36 years.

Hostos moves students from the bottom 20% to the top 20% at four times the national average.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE WIN: Diesel-fueled transport refrigeration units (TRUs) have long polluted Hunts Point, adding to truck traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway. We are replacing 20 TPUs with cleaner technology and cutting dangerous emissions. Bronx families deserve clean air.

Wishing a happy Easter to all who celebrate. May this day bring you peace, hope, and time with those you love.

Wishing a blessed Good Friday to all who observe. May this sacred day be a time for reflection, renewal, and hope.

New investments are finally replacing these dirty diesel units with cleaner technology, and cutting emissions so significantly that the result is equivalent to removing thousands of daily truck trips on the Cross Bronx Expressway.

Nearly 1,000 diesel-powered refrigeration units at the market, combined with nonstop truck traffic, have subjected Bronx residents to some of the worst air quality in the city.

Hunts Point is one of the largest food distribution hubs in the country, but it has also been a major source of pollution for the surrounding communities.

I was proud to join the @mta.info and @nyc-dot.bsky.social today in Hunts Point to announce real progress on cleaner air for the Bronx.

It would also fundamentally undermine what it means to be an American. Birthright citizenship is not a technicality, it is a defining promise of this country: that anyone born here belongs here. To strip that away is to redraw the boundaries of American identity itself.

What is at stake is nothing less than the rule of law itself. An effort to rewrite the Constitution by executive fiat, backed by political pressure on the Court, would sow chaos in the lives of millions and erode the judiciary’s role as a check on executive overreach.

And now he is showing up at the Supreme Court itself, an unmistakable attempt to pressure and intimidate the justices as they weigh a fundamental question of constitutional law.

President Donald Trump’s executive order terminating birthright citizenship blatantly violates the plain meaning of the Constitution and the Court’s own precedents.

Oral arguments are underway at the Supreme Court in a case that could strip citizenship from children born on American soil.

The Constitution is unequivocal. The 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, and the Supreme Court has affirmed it for more than a century.

On this Trans Day of Visibility, we stand with our TGNC neighbors and recommit to the fight for their dignity, safety, and right to live openly and without fear.