Press Releases
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig pressed the Trump Administration about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recent proposal to turn the former Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, MN, which was shuttered in 2010, into an ICE detention center.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig announced that Shakopee Fire will receive $2,632,890 in federal funding through the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (FEMA) Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant program to hire 12 new full-time firefighters. Rep. Craig was a strong advocate for this funding, writing a letter to FEMA in support of the City of Shakopee’s application in July of this year.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig released the following statement on President Trump and Congressional Republicans’ failure to fund the government, leading to the first government shutdown in nearly seven years.
“Today, Republicans – who control the House of Representatives, Senate and White House – failed to do their job of keeping the government open.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig introduced a package of two bills to hold elected officials accountable for shutting down the government. Her Termination of Reckless Unchecked Mandates from this President (TRUMP) Act would prohibit the President from using any federal funds to issue executive orders during a government shutdown.
EAGAN, MN – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig demanded answers from the United States Postal Service (USPS) leadership on the status of the new New Prague post office following reports from a local news organization that their newspapers were not being delivered to their subscribers on time.