Ritchie Torres: “We need to extend the child tax credit which would cut child poverty by 40 percent in the span of one year.”

Not a deal. It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.

If the agreement succeeds in securing the release of the hostages, disarming Hamas, and ending the war, then of course the President deserves credit.

The May flooding hit Bronx families and small businesses hard, and I'm glad Governor Hochul secured this disaster declaration to get them the help they need.

The central emotion of our time is not patriotic hope about America, but rage against America across the political spectrum.