Rep. Lauren Underwood
Representing #IL14. Nurse, health enthusiast, advocate for the working families of Illinois.
- No more masks. No more detaining U.S. citizens. No more racial profiling. The Department of Homeland Security is out of control and we are demanding accountability.
- This Valentine’s Day, join me in sharing some love with veterans in our community: make a video, drawing, card, or just share a short message of thanks. Submit your valentines here! forms.gle/fdatpSxRyriM...
- Join my team! Our office is accepting applications for a D.C.-based Maternal Health Intern that will help support my work as Co-Chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus. Learn more and apply here: underwood.house.gov/services/int...
- The health care savings from my legislation led to the LOWEST uninsured rate in American history and helped 4 in 5 Americans find health care for $10 or less a month. The Senate needs to act and restore these tax credits immediately.
- Trade wars, tariffs, and tax breaks for billionaires – one year into Trump’s second term and Illinois families are paying the price.
- Far too many Americans are being denied their fundamental freedoms because of Republicans’ extreme agenda. Abortion is health care, and everyone deserves to have control over their own body. Today’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade is a reminder that this fight continues.
- The 2026 Homeland Security funding bill that the House is voting on this week is an easy NO for me. It’s a blank check with no accountability for DHS’s outrageous abuses.
- And even if this doesn’t pass, we can’t let up. ICE still has $75 billion that Republicans passed in their Big Ugly Bill last year. Read my full report here: bit.ly/homelandreso...
- Last month, I demanded entry to ICE facilities in Illinois & Indiana. People deserve to know the truth about what’s happening in our communities, how federal resources are being used in their name, & how these operations are run. Read my oversight report here: underwood.house.gov/media/press-...
- What’s the Senate waiting for?
- Last week a strong bipartisan majority in the House passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for 3 years. But we need your help in the Senate:
- Spent an incredible day with an even more incredible group of students from our community who I had the honor of nominating to U.S. Service Academies!
- You’re invited to join us for the official opening of our DeKalb, Illinois office! RSVP here: bit.ly/underwoodope...
- Happy 118th Founders’ Day, to my Sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®! Here’s to 118 incredible years of service, sisterhood, and soaring higher together!
- Just left the House floor after we passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!!
- Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
- I urge my colleagues to vote YES, save our health care, and extend these incredibly popular tax credits for 3 more years.
- Today we will finally vote on my bill to extend the incredibly popular health care tax credits from my legislation.
- This week we're voting on my bill to save health care and extend the ACA tax credits for 3 years. Here's an update on what you can expect:
- My friend @libradunn1.bsky.social and I got together today to reflect on January 6th:
- Republicans have created a health care crisis.
- Another incredible year serving the community I love most as your Representative in Congress! Happy New Year!
- My two bipartisan bills would address the biggest challenges Illinois farmers tell me they're facing today.
- Millions of Americans are about to see their health care costs skyrocket, but instead of voting on my bill to save health care, the Republican Speaker sent the entire House home for the holidays.
- Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I’m so thankful to able to serve you and your family in Congress. I hope everyone has a peaceful day with family and loved ones.
- Before going home for the holidays, I prepared some gifts for some very deserving people across our nation’s capital.
- I’m in Miami, Indiana today continuing my ICE oversight work by visiting the detention facility where our neighbors arrested in Operation Midway Blitz are being held. Here’s what I saw.
- Continued my ICE oversight today by visiting two more facilities in Chicago and Lombard, Illinois. Here’s what you should know.
- Just reintroduced my bipartisan bill, the NIH IMPROVE Act, with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Senator Katie Britt, and @booker.senate.gov, to fund lifesaving research at the National Institutes of Health to save moms’ lives!
- My new bipartisan bill, the Baby Changing in Health Centers Act, helps make sure parents have a clean, accessible, and safe environment to take care of their kids when they visit a Community Health Center.
- Just testified to @democrats-veterans.house.gov on my legislation to support our nation’s veterans. From improving the VA’s maternity care programs, to making sure veterans have better access to preventative health care services, I’m committed to fulfilling our nation’s promise to our veterans.
- I was so honored to join the groundbreaking celebration for Safe Passage DeKalb’s new, 24/7 shelter and see the federal funding I secured for this project being put to work for this incredible cause.
- Safe Passage DeKalb is a lifeline for survivors of domestic, sexual, and dating violence in our community. I joined the groundbreaking for their new 24/7 shelter, an incredible space I secured $2.5 million in federal funding for.
- What was the Broadview ICE facility like? Unsanitary, uncomfortable, and smelly. There was no food vendor or medical care available. The way immigrants and U.S. citizens have been treated there is unacceptable.
- Parents afraid to walk their kids to school. Workers afraid to go to work. Local businesses suffering. The Trump Administration said they were going after the “worst of the worst” but all they’ve done is create chaos and fear in my community.
- After months of delays from DHS, I was the first Member of Congress in years allowed into the ICE Processing Center in Broadview.
- I’m honored to have had a small part in helping the Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry and Clothes Closet find their new, permanent home.
- When Batavia was in my congressional district, I secured $3 million in federal funding to help the city’s food pantry find a new, permanent home.
- Donald Trump and Kristi Noem have terrorized Illinois for months, arresting U.S. citizens, dragging children from their beds, and breaking into homes.
- Just introduced my new, bipartisan bill with Rep. Van Drew to make safe and clean baby changing stations more widely available for families.
- Thrilled to celebrate the Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry and Clothes Closet moving into their new home! In 2022, I secured $3 million to help make this move possible and help keep our neighbors healthy, fed, and warm.
- As the only Democratic nurse in Congress, I remember how expensive pursuing my degree was. And now, Trump’s Education Department is moving to make it even more expensive. Here’s how you can help.
- @housedemocrats.bsky.social are not giving up the fight to save our health care.
- The incredibly popular tax credits from my Health Care Affordability Act have been a lifeline for families.
- During #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we honor the history, culture, and the contributions of all Native people and families in our northern Illinois community.
- Republican attacks on food for hungry families do not end with the government shutdown. Starting in December, SNAP recipients will experience changes to their benefits from the Big, Ugly Bill. Danielle from @fooddepository.bsky.social helped break it down:
- It feels like hard work is being rewarded less and the American Dream feels more out of reach than ever. But instead of bringing down the cost of living like he promised, Trump is more focused on a tacky golden ballroom, starting trade wars, and giving taxpayer-funded bailouts to Argentina.
- Wishing you and your loved ones a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
- Democracy isn’t just something that we have. It’s something we do – together.
- No matter where you get your health care — through your employer, Medicare, or Get Covered Illinois — your costs are going up because of the Republican health care crisis.
