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House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Rep. Angie Craig says Congress must do more to address the financial challenges facing American farmers. During a press call with agricultural reporters, the Minnesota Democrat argued that continued economic uncertainty and rising farm bankruptcies demonstrate the need for greater stability across the agricultural economy. Craig contends the Trump administration’s trade and economic policies have added to the financial pressures producers are already facing.

(ABC 6 News)– U.S. Rep Angie Craig visited Mayo Clinic to learn more about the organizations transformative “Bold. Forward. Unbound.” project.

During her visit, Rep. Craig toured the Rochester campus transformation.

Rep. Craig discussed with leaders of Mayo Clinic about the use of innovative technologies to improve patient outcomes. They also discussed the economic and workforce benefits that Mayo Clinic has had across Southern Minnesota.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — U.S. Rep. Angie Craig visited Mayo Clinic in Rochester Thursday to learn about the hospital's strategy and its plans to transform the downtown campus.  Craig is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Tina Smith, who is not running for another term.

Craig toured the Rochester campus and met with Mayo Clinic leadership. They discussed how the hospital is using new technologies to improve patient care and outcomes.

Social Security is a lifeline for millions. According to a Senior Citizens League survey, nearly three-quarters of seniors (73%) depend on Social Security benefits for more than half of their income, and nearly 40% depend on it for their entire income.

Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee Thursday pressed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on several hot-button issues, including high fuel prices and cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.), ranking member on the committee, got into a testy back-and-forth with Rollins during the hearing, grilling her on her knowledge of recent farm closures, the SNAP fraud rate, and the surge in diesel and fertilizer prices since the Iran war.

Andrea Pedro-Francisco, a 23-year-old asylum seeker who has been pleading for medical treatment for a large ovarian cyst since being arrested by immigration agents in Minnesota in February, was unexpectedly released from a Texas detention center on Wednesday.

“It was a shock,” Pedro-Francisco said in a statement shared by her attorney. “Suddenly ICE told me that today I was going to be released, and I asked them why, where am I going? They told me I was going home.”

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – DFL second-district congresswoman Rep. Angie Craig has reintroduced her bill to hold the United States Postal Service accountable for what she called “unacceptable mail delivery service.”

In a press release, Craig said this was in response to a recent ranking that put the Minnesota-North Dakota region in the bottom ten nationally for on-time mail delivery.