Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Craig announced that she secured $10,720,000 in federal funding for the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority (MVTA) to add hybrid diesel buses to its fleet and modernize the Burnsville Bus Garage. MVTA will receive $8,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Low-or-No-Emission Grant Program to support its fleet expansion and $2,720,000 from DOT’s Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant Program to fund Phase IV of the Burnsville Bus Garage Modernization project.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig released the following statement on her vote against the government funding bill that fails to extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and raises health care costs for millions of Americans.
“I have said from the beginning of this shutdown that I refuse to abandon the tens of thousands of Minnesotans who could lose their health coverage because of Republicans’ unrelenting attacks on health care.
EAGAN, MN – Today, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig and Suzan DelBene (WA-01) introduced a bill to prevent the expansion of prior authorization in Traditional Medicare and protect seniors from being denied care based on artificial intelligence (AI)-generated coverage decisions.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture Angie Craig and Assistant Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02) hosted a press conference on the Trump Administration’s deliberate suspension of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Reps. Craig and Neguse were joined by Reps. Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Shontel Brown (OH-11), Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) and Alma Adams (NC-12).
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture Angie Craig joined House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) in a press conference to demand the Trump Administration use previously appropriated funding to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture Angie Craig led 53 of her colleagues in calling on Congressional Republican leadership to work with Democrats to pass a funding bill that will reopen the government and extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits that millions of farmers and rural Americans rely on for affordable health care.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig called on the Trump Administration to reverse its decision to execute mass layoffs in the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). In a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Rep.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture Angie Craig called on President Trump to roll back his unconstitutional, country-specific “Liberation Day” tariffs and provide relief to soybean farmers in Minnesota and across the country.
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, U.S. Representative Angie Craig called on House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring House Republicans back to Washington, DC and pass a bill to ensure military servicemembers are paid during the government shutdown. Speaker Johnson has kept the House out of session for the duration of the government shutdown, preventing the House from passing any bill to ensure essential workers, like members of the military, TSA agents and air traffic controllers, are paid.
WASHINGTON, DC – In response to pressure from U.S. Representative Angie Craig, the United States Postal Service (USPS) recently notified Rep. Craig’s office that it will be launching an internal investigation into reports of delayed delivery of the New Prague Times.