America is staring down the barrel of economic armageddon. The doomsday device is in the hands of Republican lawmakers. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill political gamesmanship — by next month, we could be grappling with a financial meltdown far worse than 2008.   The House of Representatives is in session for just 12 days before June 1, which the Treasury Department warns could… Read more »

Originally published in the USA Today Network In their first week in power, House Republicans were busy. They voted to gut the Internal Revenue Service — again — to help millionaires cheat on their taxes. They passed a pair of efforts to further restrict women’s freedom and bodily autonomy. They rewarded rightwing extremists with seats on important committees. As a coming attraction… Read more »

Originally published in the Bergen Record. Oil companies need to stop screwing New Jersey drivers at the pump | Opinion By Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. This spring, as gas station prices drastically ticked up amid Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, something felt amiss. It seemed convenient for energy companies that gas prices were rising solely because of the war in Ukraine —… Read more »

Originally published in the North Jersey Bergen Record Navigating impossibly complicated instructions or to spending hard earned money to download software or hire a CPA – and all for the task of forking over more money to Uncle Sam – can be frustrating.  Making the process even more agonizing is that we are all participants in an unfair two-tier tax system.  The first… Read more »

Originally published in the Bergen Record Sunday Edition. Putin, his enablers, and Russia must be punished — now By Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. This past Sunday I attended services at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Passaic, New Jersey. The love and reverence our neighbors have for their ancestral homeland is powerful as Ukraine is menaced by Russia. Already the most diverse… Read more »

Originally published in the Bergen Record. Last month, the House Oversight Subcommittee I chair held an important hearing on ominous trends in American health care. We examined the growing control of the health care system by Wall Street and private equity firms, particularly in long-term care facilities. What we found is not pretty. The pandemic has caused unbearable suffering,… Read more »

Originally published in the North Jersey (Bergen) Record  -- President Donald Trump’s reported desecration of American soldiers who fell in World War I may rank among the worst slurs he has uttered in office. But Trump’s hostility toward troops and veterans is not new. Trump has compiled a record in word and deed that is derisive to the health of service members,… Read more »

Originally published in the NY Daily News. Donald Trump vs. law enforcement: All the ways he’s hurt policing in America as president By Bill Pascrell, Jr. Desperate to deflect from his catastrophic failure to contain the pandemic or help millions of unemployed Americans, Donald Trump is making support for law enforcement a centerpiece of his administration. But even a cursory scan… Read more »

Originally published on NJ.com. The passing of my friend Congressman John Lewis has been a terrible blow. His death at this moment crystalizes the imperative of what was perhaps John’s most important life’s work: protecting your right to vote.   Because there is no question that your sacred right is under grave threat.   Almost daily, Donald Trump uses his pulpit to… Read more »

Originally published in The Record (NorthJersey.com). Americans deserve to see Trump's tax returns Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. Guest columnist The Supreme Court’s decisions in the Trump tax returns cases were bittersweet. The good news is the court affirmed the principle it established during Watergate that no president is above the law. But the rulings will allow Donald Trump to… Read more »