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November 10, 2025Duckworth Renews Push to Help Protect Servicemembers and Veterans from Deportation Ahead of Veterans Day and Amid Trump’s Continued Attacks Against our Heroes
Ahead of Veterans Day and as Donald Trump continues to target our brave immigrant Veterans and servicemembers in his mass deportation campaign, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) renewed her push to protect and support these heroes who have proven they are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to defend our nation. Duckworth reintroduced a package of bills—the Veterans Visa and Protection Act, HOPE Act and I-VETS Act—that would prohibit the deportation of immigrant Veterans w… Continue Reading
November 10, 2025Duckworth Reacts to Trump Threatening Hardworking Air Traffic Controllers and Encouraging Them to Quit
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—Ranking Member of the Senate’s Aviation Subcommittee—issued the following statement after Donald Trump threatened our nation’s Air Traffic Controllers and encouraged them to leave their jobs with our nation already facing a substantial controller shortage: “Our nation’s chronically overworked and understaffed air traffic controllers are absolutely critical to keeping flyers safe. These dedicated public servants perform an extremely challenging mission with li… Continue Reading
November 10, 2025Duckworth, Durbin, Casten, Sorensen Announce Annual Electricity Bills Have Risen 15% Under President Trump
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representatives Sean Casten (D-IL-06) and Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17) announced new findings from the Joint Economic Committee Minority report released last week showing that electricity costs have risen significantly under the Trump Administration. On the campaign trail, President Trump repeatedly promised that he would slash electricity prices in half. However, according to new Committee projections, annua… Continue Reading
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September 30, 2025Sen. Duckworth on Hegseth's Quantico speech
President Trump defended the use of troops in U.S. cities while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told military commanders about new physical fitness and grooming requirements for uniformed personnel. President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, both addressed hundreds of senior generals and admirals at a base outside of Washington, D.C., today. The meeting itself was highly unusual as military gatherings go, but the message was usual for the Trump administration. President Trump berat… Continue Reading
September 29, 2025Democrats question ‘contingency plans’ for meeting of top US military leaders
Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) in a Saturday letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for transparency regarding the meeting he will hold Tuesday with top military leaders. The meeting, first reported by The Washington Post, will include hundreds of generals and admirals stationed around the world. President Trump told NBC News on Sunday that he plans on attending the gathering at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. Duckworth and Hirono, both member… Continue Reading
September 18, 2025There’s a new push to save child care on college campuses
Child care is so expensive for parents in college that it often exceeds the cost of their education. For years, one federal program has been helping lower those costs, until this year when the program has faced cuts under the Trump administration. Now, Democratic lawmakers are leading a push to save it. House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Sen. Tammy Duckworth are reintroducing a bill Thursday to dramatically grow the $80 million Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program… Continue Reading