Does Claudia Tenney support your values?

by Contributor | May 3, 2025 11:26 am

Letter to the Editor

Claudia Tenney is our Representative in Congress for the 24th New York district, where she recently bought a house . Her voting record and her public statements show she is one of the most loyal supporters of President Trump’s policies. Tenney enthusiastically endorses Trumps’s firing, lay-off or attempted firing of 275,000 federal civil servants in the veterans administration, consumer protection, health care, medical research, farm assistance programs, food and water safety regulations, and foreign aid desperately needed in places like Sudan. Thirty percent of federal civil servants are veterans. Are Tenney and Trump and Elon Musk doing this to reduce the bloated federal deficit? No, they’re doing it to pay for reducing taxes on billionaires and millionaires, which, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will increase the federal deficit.
Tenney cheers the Supreme Court’s decision denying women the right to choose. She votes for Trump’s policies to boost fossil fuels and eliminate efforts to deal with climate change. She supports the tariffs that are wreaking havoc on farmers and the rest of the economy. She voted against gun background checks, an assault-weapons ban and a ban on silencers. Last February, Tenney introduced legislation to make Donald Trump’s birthday a federal holiday (along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln).
Tenney’s margins of victory in her last two elections have been paper-thin. We can help block President Trump’s disastrous policies by defeating her and other lock-step Republican Representatives in 2026.

Richard Figiel
Trumansburg, NY

 

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