Working families in Illinois and across the country are being squeezed by high prices at the grocery store and the gas pump. It’s frustrating — but it doesn’t have to be this way.
While the Trump Administration wreaks havoc on the pocketbooks of folks in Illinois 13, I’m working to bring costs down and give our families and small businesses some breathing room.
- As too many of our families continue to struggle with the extreme cost of child care, we need a middle class tax cut. I’m a proud cosponsor of the American Family Act which would create a permanent tax cut for working parents.
- Representing some of the top counties in the nation for corn and soybean production, I led the effort to pass legislation in the House allowing the year-round sale of E15 — lowering fuel costs for families, strengthening America’s energy independence, and creating new opportunities for our corn growers.
- There’s no excuse for pharmaceutical companies to charge consumers hundreds of dollars for insulin. That’s why I’ve cosponsored the Affordable Insulin Now Act to cap the price of insulin at $35 a month for all patients.
- I’ve heard from countless independent pharmacists across the district about how they’re being squeezed out of business by Big Pharma and the health insurance corporations – coordinated by greedy middlemen called Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) who work to keep drug prices artificially high. That’s why I’m a proud cosponsor of the Pharmacists Fight Back Act, which would crack down on predatory drug pricing practices and expand patient choice.
- The Affordable Care Act’s enhanced tax credits saved families hundreds of dollars a month on their health insurance premiums. When the Trump Administration let those credits expire, costs surged for working families. I’m working to restore and extend these savings so families can keep more of their hard-earned money while maintaining access to affordable health care.
- I’ve introduced the Rural Energy Savings Act to provide interest-free loans to utilities in order to help families and businesses afford energy efficiency improvements, reducing emissions and saving money at the same time.
