Her bill would let the Treasury Secretary strip a charity's tax-exempt status without showing it the evidence. It passed the House in 2024, died in the Senate, and was quietly reintroduced in December 2025 — into her own committee, with the hostage-relief provision she hid it behind now stripped out.
Hours after an 82-year-old man was left with a fractured skull in his own home, the congresswoman from New York's 24th District shared a photoshopped meme about it and laughed. Three years later, when someone broke a window at her house, she said attacks on public officials 'have no place in our society.'
Upstate New York's Claudia Tenney used her power as a member of Congress to propose a national day off honoring a living president's birthday. The bill has zero cosponsors, zero hearings, and would cost taxpayers close to a billion dollars a year.
Food, rent, electricity, healthcare - in America we should be able to afford these basic necessities of life without going bankrupt.
Claudia Tenney has supported the current administration's tariffs and other policies which have led to:
Half of all Americans struggling to afford groceries
47% struggling to afford their utility bills
47% struggling to afford healthcare
48% struggling to afford housing
1 in 4 Americans saying they have skipped a medical checkup due to affordability
23% skipping a prescription dose
Gas prices skyrocketing
When Canadian provinces pulled American wine and beer off their shelves in retaliation for Trump's tariffs, Tenney's answer was not to fight the tariffs raising prices on New York families — it was to introduce the "CANADA Act," a bill to punish Canada for its "discriminatory treatment" of U.S. alcohol producers. As CBC noted, her statement never mentioned what prompted the bans in the first place: Trump's tariffs.
We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Claudia Tenney doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.
We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.
Claudia Tenney disagrees:
She voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
She voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
She wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
The nonpartisan Joint Economic Committee estimates the healthcare cuts in Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" will cost more than 30,000 people in her district their health insurance.
We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Claudia Tenney doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.
Wants to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security aren't handouts. They're earned benefits that we pay into out of every single paycheck, our entire working lives, so that we can see a doctor, take care of our parents, and retire with dignity instead of going bankrupt when we get old or sick.
For years, Claudia Tenney and her party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.
They admitted the plan. Speaker Mike Johnson told the "Moon Griffon Show" that "entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security ... have to be adjusted and fixed," and that "We have a plan to do that next year ... desperate times call for desperate measures."
We know what the plan looks like. The Republican Study Committee — a caucus of more than 170 House Republicans that includes Speaker Johnson and his top three deputies in leadership — released a budget calling for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and converting Medicare into a privatized "premium support" model that would hand seniors over to for-profit insurance companies.
They already started. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Claudia Tenney supported cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid to help pay for tax cuts for the richest 1 percent.
Even Republicans admit what "reform" means. Sen. Josh Hawley, on the push to "address" and "reform" these programs: "That's usually code for 'cut.' I'm not in favor of that."
It's a broken promise. Donald Trump pledged in 2024, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." Claudia Tenney and her party are now preparing to do exactly that.
These programs are a promise: work hard, pay in your whole life, and your country will be there for you when you need it. Claudia Tenney wants to break that promise so she can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.
Cut Taxes for the Rich, While Making the Rest of Us Pay For It
We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.
But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Claudia Tenney supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans.
Claudia Tenney is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better.
We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.
Claudia Tenney has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.
Is Intentionally Wrecking Our Public Schools and Our Kids' Futures
Nine out of ten American children — 49.6 million of them — go to a public school. It's where they learn to read, where they eat breakfast and lunch, where kids with disabilities are guaranteed an education by law, and where a kid from any family, rich or poor, religious or not, gets a fair shot.
Claudia Tenney and her party are taking that apart on purpose: draining public school money into private and religious schools, pushing one religion into everybody else's classrooms, and shutting down the federal department that is supposed to look out for our kids.
She voted to create the first national private school voucher in American history. It is hidden inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." You give up to $1,700 a year to a charity that hands out private school scholarships, and the government gives you back every penny you gave on your taxes. It costs you nothing — no other tax break in the country works that way. Each person is capped at $1,700, but any number of people can do it, so there is no limit on what it drains from the Treasury. It starts January 1, 2027. Congress's own scorekeepers say $26 billion over ten years; one tax research group says as much as $51 billion every year — more than the government spends on Title I ($18.4 billion) for poor schools and IDEA ($14.6 billion) for kids with disabilities combined. And "low-income" means a family earning three times what a normal family in their area earns still qualifies — in some places, $500,000 a year.
They are giving away our tax dollars to families who are already wealthy and were never in public school to begin with. Every state that has tried it gets the same result — the money goes to people already paying private tuition: 95% of Arkansas voucher users never attended a public school. In Florida's first year of universal vouchers, 69% of new recipients were already in private school and only 13% had ever set foot in a public one. In Iowa, two-thirds were already in private school. We aren't rescuing kids from bad schools — we're cutting checks to families who never needed them, with the money coming out of the schools 90% of our kids actually attend.
And the kids who do switch end up doing worse. Four careful studies found the same thing. In Washington, DC, voucher kids fell behind in math. In Louisiana, a student who started in the middle of the class dropped to the bottom third in math after three years. Indiana and Ohio found the same. Kids with disabilities lost the most.
The money goes to religious schools that can turn our kids away. Ohio now spends nearly $1 billion a year on vouchers, the vast majority going to Catholic and evangelical schools — schools that, unlike public schools, can reject your child over their religion, their disability, or who their parents are, or for ANY REASON AT ALL with almost no accountability for the public money they take. Many have simply raised tuition to capture the vouchers instead of enrolling more students.
Our public schools took generations to build, and they are the one institution that has to take every single child who walks in the door. Claudia Tenney is helping tear them down and hand the pieces to private interests. Our kids will pay for it for the rest of their lives. We deserve better.
A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.
Claudia Tenney supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
The unemployment rate is 4.2%
In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.
Works for Billionaires, Big Business & Special Interests and Not for Us
Our elected officials should work for us, the people.
Claudia Tenney works for big business and party leadership, not for us. She sits on the Ways and Means Committee, which writes the tax code for every industry in the country, and on the Intelligence Committee. Her largest backers are her own party's leadership PACs and the Koch network, not the voters of her district — only 17% of her money came from small grassroots donors. Look at who some of her top funders are:
Republican leadership money: the NRCC ($103,800), Steve Scalise's Eye of the Tiger PAC ($45,000), Kevin McCarthy's Majority Committee PAC ($35,000) and Elise Stefanik's E-PAC ($35,000)
KOCHPAC — $33,500 from Koch, Inc.'s corporate PAC
Value in Electing Women PAC — $40,000
Bloom Energy — $38,000, from the fuel-cell company
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC — $146,157
People at Blue Owl Capital and Bluff Point Associates, the investment firms
The insurance and accounting industries whose tax treatment her committee writes: the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, the American Council of Life Insurers and PricewaterhouseCoopers
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and the Citizens United Political Victory Fund
Claudia Tenney is funded by billionaires, big business and special interests. No wonder she's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $1.1 BILLION from New York
We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.
That's not what we got.
Claudia Tenney stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, New York suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.
Elon Musk and DOGE:
Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
Tenney didn't just cheer DOGE on — she introduced a bill to force all 50 states to create their own DOGE commissions by holding their federal funding hostage, declaring "DOGE is working diligently at the federal level to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. It's time for state governments to follow suit."
We'd like to thank you, Claudia Tenney, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
As a member of Congress, part of Claudia Tenney's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. She and her fellow members of Congress from New York have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
Protected Pedophiles by Blocking Release of the Epstein Files
Jeffrey Epstein ran a global sex trafficking network that sexually abused dozens of girls and women for decades. The FBI identified at least 35 minors with similar abuse histories. When finally released in 2026, the files — over 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images — revealed what UN human rights experts called "disturbing and credible evidence" of a possible global criminal enterprise. Those experts said some of the conduct may meet the threshold for crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, torture, and enforced disappearance.
For months, House Republican leadership blocked every vote to release these files — and Claudia Tenney went along.
We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.
In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Claudia Tenney has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
Claudia Tenney holds an A+ rating from the NRA and has spent her career working to expand gun rights. Two days after 59 people were killed in the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, Tenney — one of 161 Republican co-sponsors of a bill to roll back the 80-year-old law regulating the sale of gun silencers — told syracuse.com she still planned to vote for it, saying of mass shootings: "If somebody really wants to kill somebody, they'll do it." She is also an original co-sponsor of the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would force New York to honor concealed-carry permits issued by other states.
A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.
Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Claudia Tenney thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.
Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don't have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That's what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Claudia Tenney thinks she knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.
Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Claudia Tenney's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.
Claudia Tenney has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Claudia Tenney and her bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.
But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Claudia Tenney, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
Worse than nothing, actually. In April 2025 — while the Supreme Court was telling the administration it should facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man it had mistakenly deported — Tenney flew to El Salvador with the House Ways and Means delegation that visited CECOT, the prison where the administration was warehousing the people it deported. The delegation's chairman posted photographs of himself standing in front of caged detainees. Meanwhile, that very week, House Republican committee chairs were refusing Democrats' requests to make oversight visits to the same prison — one chairman called the request "absurd," another said it would "waste taxpayer dollars." A photo op for them; no oversight for anyone else.
ProPublica:They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
ProPublica:Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
New York Times:Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Claudia Tenney have to say? Nothing.
They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
And the list of the dead keeps growing. ICE agents — on duty and off — keep killing members of our communities, while Claudia Tenney says nothing:
On December 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, Los Angeles shot and killed Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old U.S. citizen and father of two who was born and raised in Compton. Federal officials called it self-defense against an "active shooter," but Porter's family says he was peacefully returning home and never posed a threat — and witnesses reported only three shots, matching his autopsy and contradicting claims of an exchange of gunfire.
On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and small-business owner who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years. Agents had been hunting a different white van. Harris County's medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and his co-workers disputed ICE's claim that he used his vehicle as a weapon.
On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and supported his wife and 3-year-old daughter by delivering food and cleaning a veterinary clinic. He was not the target of ICE's warrant — agents were looking for someone else — and were not wearing body cameras. Even Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins urged DHS to halt non-urgent vehicle stops in the state.
It's happening here in New York. For nearly a year, masked ICE agents arrested hundreds of people at New York City immigration courthouses — 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick Street — as they showed up for scheduled hearings. More than half of all courthouse arrests nationwide were happening in New York, until the DOJ admitted ICE had misled the court about its legal authority and a judge sharply limited the practice.
If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Claudia Tenney going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
Voted for the Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran
War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.
In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:
We are being dog-walked by Israel, who has been trying to convince presidents to attack Iran forever, and finally found one dumb enough to do so
The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Claudia Tenney supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Claudia Tenney work for Israel or the people of New York? We deserve better.
Avoids Her Constituents and Refuses to Hold In-Person Town Halls
Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Claudia Tenney doesn't want to hear what we have to say. She only wants to talk to her rich donors or people who agree with her.
She has been dodging her own constituents since the day she got to Congress. Back in 2017, during her first term, Tenney gave a different reason every week: first she wouldn't hold town halls because she didn't want a shouting match with "paid protestors," then she would hold one but only after the Capitol Police finished investigating threats, then she preferred meeting people one-on-one, and then a spokeswoman said maybe in the summer. Constituents eventually held a mock town hall with a Tenney impersonator after she used not one day of a two-week recess to meet with them.
Wrote a Bill to Let the Government Shut Down Nonprofits It Doesn't Like
We deserve leaders who protect our freedom to speak. Claudia Tenney wrote and introduced H.R.9495, a bill that would let the Treasury Secretary strip any nonprofit of its tax-exempt status by accusing it of being a "terrorist-supporting organization" — without being required to disclose the evidence against it. The ACLU led a coalition of more than 180 organizations — including Planned Parenthood, the AFL-CIO, and the NAACP — warning that her bill would give the incoming administration new power to "muzzle, punish, and effectively shut down" nonprofits, universities, and even news outlets. It passed the House 219 to 184 in November 2024, but died in the Senate and never became law.
Claudia Tenney was not yet seated on January 6, 2021 — her own razor-thin race was still being counted. But once in office, she refused to defend our democracy:
We should hold our leaders to high standards. The same day Paul Pelosi — the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a colleague of her own — was attacked in his own home and left with a cracked skull, Claudia Tenney wrote "LOL" while boosting a heavily photoshopped right-wing meme showing men with hammers standing outside the alleged assailant's home. She left the post up for days, switched off her replies when people objected, and then quietly deleted it without explanation. We deserve better.