Tammy Duckworth: “This is critically important to our national security, and I am glad we can highlight it today.”

Illinois’s farmers are essential to the strength of our state and our nation, and I will always fight to ensure they have the support they need to succeed.

If enacted, this deregulation plan would fundamentally change how Head Start is run and jeopardize its ability to care for our children.

Rural Illinoisans were already dealing with extreme barriers to care, between a shortage of health care professionals and too many having to travel hours to the nearest hospital when mere minutes can mean life or death in an emergency.

For many Illinoisans in rural communities, health care was already too expensive and too hard to get—and then came the Medicaid cuts.