May 22, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement:  “The largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in American history – and Trump is calling it the ‘Big, Beautiful’ bill. Well beautiful for whom? Certainly not the millions of Americans who rely on SNAP to feed their children and on Medicaid to get their health care.  “Republicans are obsessed with the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer. This callous bill will hurt the poorest 10% of Americans while benefiting the top 1%. This bill is a predatory scam on the American people designed to pay for billionaire tax cuts. “I

May 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement: “We stand with Representative LaMonica McIver in the face of efforts to intimidate her and silence those who seek to hold this administration accountable.  “Under federal law, members of Congress have the legally protected authority to conduct oversight inspections of immigration detention facilities. If Representative McIver had posed such a serious threat, she wouldn’t have been invited back inside the Delaney Hall facility to finish her tour that day.  “Just today, a federal judge reprimanded Department of

Major Richard Star Act would provide combat-injured veterans with full earned disability compensation and retirement pay May 21, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen, Angela Alsobrooks (Both D-Md.) joined Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), to reintroduce S. 1032, the Major Richard Star Act. This bipartisan legislation would provide combat-injured veteran retirees their full benefits. “We owe our veterans a debt we can never fully repay – but we can ensure they receive the support they deserve when they return home. That’s why it’s unacceptable that our combat-injured veterans are not guaranteed to receive