On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that Chicago will cooperate with ICE to get criminals off the street, but ICE doesn’t “want to do the work” to get needed warrants. Krishnamoorthi said, “First
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that ICE doesn’t want to do the work to get warrants and that an incident where there was a suspected gang member who ICE said assaulted ICE agents after
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Select Committee on the CCP Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that even if the drones around New Jersey are amateur, there’s still a risk because Chinese-made drones have a large market
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that the United States’ “defense industrial base is in such disrepair that it shows weakness and that invites aggression.” And cited disparities in shipbuilding, long-range
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that while he thinks across-the-board tariffs aren’t a good idea, “the law enforcement cooperation between us and those uncorrupted parts of the Mexican law enforcement establishment [is] not going
On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that it’s time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be willing to give ground in talks with Hamas and that if a deal in Gaza is struck, “it will also
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) acknowledged that, during her interview with the Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier on Wednesday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris will likely face pushback that she hasn’t
During an interview on NewsNation on Thursday, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) responded to a question of why Democrats haven’t implemented the solutions to inflation they say they will by stating that it would help to have a majority in the
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) defended 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ seeming support of price controls on groceries, but stated that he’s a “little less comfortable” with President Joe Biden’s push
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) responded to criticisms of 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) accounts of his service record, including him talking about carrying a weapon in war
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris will do press conferences, but at the moment, “she’s introducing herself to the public as the presidential nominee
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) responded to a question on 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ performance with handling the border by stating that “the border is a crisis.” But
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Select Committee on the CCP Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) discussed a report by the committee on China’s role in the fentanyl crisis and stated that the Chinese government subsidizes exports of
On Monday’s “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that TikTok “used the geolocation data of minor children’s locations to then spread misinformation” about the bill to force a sale of it and this shows that they will use
On Monday’s “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that the suspected killer of Laken Riley was let out because “ICE didn’t have the detention facilities to be able to keep him. They didn’t have the resources to keep
On Monday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) reacted to President Joe Biden’s campaign getting a TikTok account by stating that he doesn’t have an account on his personal device because “China-based employees are able to both manipulate
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that while the testimonies by the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT on campus antisemitism “was abhorrent and I totally disagree with the way they approached the line
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” House Select Committee on the CCP Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that he’s happy to see the U.S. reached an agreement with China on military-to-military communications and fentanyl precursors during the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that the recent uptick in antisemitism is because “ever since a certain former president came to office and started to play upon some of the fault lines
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports,” House Select Committee on the CCP Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that the lack of focus on and recognition of the seriousness of China’s human rights abuses is due to
A group of Illinois Democrats have joined to demand that the state end a scholarship program that helps more than 9,000 low-income students.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) attempted to smear expert witnesses, including legal scholar Jonathan Turley, in Thursday’s opening hearing of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) argued that current tariffs on China need to be kept in place, especially in the industries where
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) reacted to two Navy sailors being charged for sharing secret information with China by stating that “low-level folks in the military have access to too much classified or protected
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Select Committee on the CCP Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that there needs to be greater regulation on American outbound investment in China and noted that American venture capital investment has
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that he hopes the investigation into the cocaine brought into the White House is reopened and argued that the White House needs to be a
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday warned there is an “extremely high risk” of encountering products made by slaves when shopping with two popular Chinese fast-fashion brands: Shein and Temu.
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said Thursday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that it was “nuts” for his Republican colleagues to call to defund the Department of Justice and FBI.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that, according to testimony in a congressional hearing held last week on the Uyghur genocide in China, witnesses testified that the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, “is routinely used
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) reintroduced a bill with Sen. Angus King (I-ME) on Friday to ban TikTok unless the app is fully divested of Chinese ownership, announcing that “momentum is growing” to pass the legislation.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday initially denied any knowledge of the huge surveillance balloon floating through American airspace, then claimed it was a weather research “airship.”
During MSNBC’s coverage of the House Speaker votes on Friday, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) reacted to House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) speech after being elected Speaker by stating that McCarthy “making it a priority to go after the FBI”
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said Friday on “MSNBC Reports” that he is not a fan of releasing anyone’s tax returns while discussing the House Ways and Means Committee releasing six years of former President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) argued that President Joe Biden should visit the border at some point and that people with Customs and Border Protection likely have “valuable” input that Biden
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that the provision in the American Rescue Plan lowering the reporting threshold for payments through PayPal or Venmo to $600 is a bad idea and
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said he has “a problem” with President Joe Biden’s student loan program because it ignores vocational programs while pushing a focus on four-year colleges and schools.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that while he’s critical of some parts of the House Republican agenda, he likes the idea of creating a select committee on China and would
During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Friday’s “Special Report,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) called on the Biden administration to invoke the Defense Production Act to address the shortage of baby formula and pointed
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) abruptly canceled a fundraiser to avoid an ethics problem after a pair of lobbyists reportedly coerced donors into thinking the event was a chance to talk with the congressman about his ongoing investigation into Washington’s NFL team, the Commanders, and its owner, Dan Snyder.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that he doesn’t want language to keep Title 42 in place in a package on Ukraine aid and COVID aid because “it’s not directly related to fighting COVID,”