Congresswoman Ramirez Statement on Republicans Offering to Their Billionaire Bosses

Washington, DC — Today, Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03) released the following statement after voting NO on H.R. 10515, the so-called American Relief Act, 2025. 

“We had an agreement. A bipartisan negotiated continuing resolution. But then the Republicans’ billionaire bosses - Trump and Musk - got involved, and Republicans showed us *exactly* who they work for. In the last 48 hours, the Republicans have shown, AGAIN, that their agenda is the corporate billionaire, big money in politics agenda.  

In order to meet their bosses’ expectations, they offer up vulnerable Americans as an offering, sacrificing working people’s healthcare, children’s research, elderly people’s affordable prescription drugs, and much, much more. And they are laying the groundwork to make the rich richer through tax cuts for the ultrawealthy in the 119th Congress.

If the Republicans want to make the rich richer, the poor poorer, and the sick sicker, they will have to pass this continuing resolution without me. I work for everyday Americans. I am not beholden to billionaires. I voted NO."