Jonathan Jackson
DDemocracy only works when people can raise their voices in the streets, and at the ballot box, without fear of reprisal. The people of Pakistan deserve free and fair elections, and I'm proud to stand with them!
Chatham is a gem, a proud and hardworking neighborhood built by public servants, working families, and people who sacrificed to make a home here. My heart is with Edimari’s family, and I joined @OmarJimenez with @CNN to make sure the country understands what this community will need in the months ahead. Healing takes counselors, clinics, and crisis care, and H.R.1’s Medicaid cuts put that care at risk for up to 500,000 Illinoisans right when families like these need it most. That is not the future Chatham deserves, and I will keep fighting in Washington until every family here can get the care they need.
Applications are now open for spring 2027 internships in my Chicago and Washington, DC offices, and I want young people from the South Side, the south suburbs, and all across Illinois to know there’s a seat at this table for you! Our interns do real work serving the people of the 1st District, from helping constituents navigate federal agencies to seeing how legislation gets made up close, so if you’re ready to learn how public service actually works, apply by Friday, October 30th at https://t.co/gCLd2CjdoL, or scan the QR code above! #internship #students #apply #washingtondc #chicago
Honored to join @Rep_Stansbury and @RepKweisiMfume in the fight to preserve our history! #HandsOff #HandsOffOurHistory #HandsOffTheSmithsonian
As of today, the Big UGLY Bill's cuts to SNAP and Medicaid are hitting home for families across IL-01. If you or someone you love lost benefits or coverage, call (800) 843-6154 for SNAP or 1-877-805-5312 for Medicaid. Be sure to share this so no one in our district is left without help!
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This speech is shameful! While Secretary Hegseth plays political games at the Pentagon, he’s gutting the ranks of admirals and generals even as the Trump administration wages reckless, illegal wars on multiple fronts. The stakes are too high for slurs instead of strategy. Sec. Hegseth must resign before the damage he is doing reaches an entire generation!
Medicaid keeps South Side families healthy, and it keeps the hospitals that serve them open. I sat down with Ben Gibson of @UChicagoMed and Erin Lane from the Office of the President at @UChicago to talk about what the cuts coming out of Washington will mean for patients in IL-01 and how we protect the coverage our neighbors count on. This is a conversation I want to keep having with all of you, so stay tuned for ways to be part of it. #Medicare #Medicaid #UChicago #UChicagoMed
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Matt McGill on @wvon1690 to talk about what Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill is doing to families on the South Side and across the country. The average SNAP recipient is getting by on about six dollars and ten cents a day for meals, and this bill still cut $190 billion from the program so it could hand trillions to the wealthiest Americans. Now 4.6 million people are at risk of losing food assistance. This was a deliberate choice, and in 40 days we get to make ours! #WVON #SNAP #IL01
Most adults play chess their whole lives and never earn a grandmaster title, and Bodhana Sivanandan just did it at just 11 years old! Congratulations, young queen! 👑♟️
I am deeply concerned by the seizure of airports in Tigray and the suspension of flights to Mekelle, Axum and Shire. The people of northern Ethiopia have already lived through a devastating war, and roughly one million remain displaced from it. They cannot afford another one. The 2022 peace agreement was hard won, and every party has a responsibility to honor it. I urge the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the federal government to step back from confrontation, protect civilians, and return to dialogue with the support of the African Union. The United States should use its diplomatic weight to keep this peace from collapsing
There is no such thing as an isolationist piece of steel. The iron may come from one nation, the manganese from another, the chromium and nickel from somewhere else, but when they enter the furnace, their differences become their strength. That is steel, and that is America! Thank you to the United Steelworkers of District 7 for having me this morning to celebrate the workers who keep America strong. Don’t fear diversity, forge it! #USW
Reports that the Army is preparing military police, medical and logistics units for possible action in the Caribbean within the next four months should alarm every member of Congress. The President speaking openly about "taking Cuba” isn’t a foreign policy, it’s a threat! Our Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to take this country to war. If this administration is planning an unjustified military action against Cuba, it must come to Congress first and make its case to the American people. Our service members, their families, and the American people deserve that honesty, and so do the Cuban people!
Great sitting down today with UN Relief Chief @UNReliefChief and my friend @RepGregoryMeeks to talk through the biggest crises around the world right now, what US funding means for the people on the ground, and how to keep the process open and accountable. This work saves lives, and I’m proud to have America’s back in it! #IL01 #UNGA81
Humanitarian aid is not charity, it’s who we are as a nation! Grateful to @UNReliefChief for the conversation with @GregMeeksNYC and I on the world's biggest crises and how US funding reaches the people who need it most. Let’s continue the work!
Every decision made in this building affects families back home. Here’s what I saw at the @UN today. @HouseForeign #UNGA81 https://t.co/zd8dGqEvOD
Every family in our district deserves to know where to turn in a hard moment. This National Suicide Prevention Month, I am asking everyone to learn one number: 988. Call or text anytime to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Veterans can press 1. Share this post so someone who needs it can find it! #IL01 #NationalSuicidePreventionMonth #988
Black youth deserve better than this! They deserve the same urgency, the same thoroughness, and the same pursuit of truth that any family in America would demand for their own child. Nolan deserved that, and his family still does. I stand with the Wells family in calling on @TheJusticeDept to take a full, independent look at this case. We owe Nolan and his family no less than the truth!
Chicago, come join me on Saturday, September 26 for Grilling for Good Health with @uihealth! We’ll be firing up the grill and breaking down what the new SNAP work requirements and Medicaid rules mean for your family, from 12 PM to 4 PM, so come out for good food, good people, and good information. Scan the QR code in the flyer to RSVP. We’ll see you soon! #IL01 #SNAP #Chicago #UIHealth
To everyone observing Yom Kippur across IL-01 and around the world, I wish you a meaningful fast and a peaceful Day of Atonement. May you be sealed for a good year. G'mar chatimah tovah!
It’s easy for a millionaire Cabinet secretary to shrug at $6.50 ground beef, she isn’t the one deciding between groceries and rent! Trump and Rollins keep spewing their lies to American farmers and families, saying things are great. @SecRollins go to any checkout line in this country to see the truth for a change!
It was a pleasure to host you and your colleagues in our Washington, D.C. office, and we’re looking forward to working together in the future!
When I asked Ambassador Mike Waltz during a @HouseForeign hearing whether the Trump administration’s sanctions were choking off fuel and resources to Cuba, he waved off my questions as “Cuban propaganda.” Now @nytimes confirms what we’ve known for months. The Trump administration’s own policy has left thousands of containers of food, medicine, and other goods stranded across the Caribbean, as shipping companies halt deliveries rather than risk Washington’s sanctions. The aid piling up in ports ranges from solar panels to medication to colostomy bags, and includes cancer drug shipments this administration forced @WHO to cancel. This was never propaganda, it was the always the plan! Call it what you want, @michaelgwaltz. The Cuban people are the ones going without. #IL01 #CubanSanctions #HandsOff #ForeignAffairs
Hands off of the Kennedy Center!! Thank you @RepDonBeyer for having me this evening, we will not let this administration erase our history! #KennedyCenter #HandsOffOurHistory #HandsOffTheSmithsonian #HandsOffTheKennedyCenter https://t.co/Dx9GJOohus
When this president locks the door on journalists, he is locking the door on the American people. A free press belongs to the people, not to the powerful. We will not be quiet, and we will not look away!!