Robin Kelly, U.S. Representative of Illinois's 2nd congressional district | Facebook
Robin Kelly, U.S. Representative of Illinois's 2nd congressional district | Facebook
Robin Kelly, U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 2nd congressional district, posted a series of tweets on November 16 and 17, 2025, criticizing recent Republican actions on taxes, healthcare, and immigration enforcement.
On November 16, Kelly addressed the impact of former President Trump’s tax policies and their effects on families in her district. She wrote, "President Trump promised to lower costs on day one, but his Big Ugly Law gave a $4.5 trillion tax break to billionaires. Families in our district will face an average $400 increase in their yearly energy bills.
President Trump wants working families to lose while billionaires".
Later that day, she focused on healthcare policy and congressional action regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits. In her tweet from November 16 at 21:28 UTC, Kelly stated, "Republicans created a healthcare crisis, shut down the government, then returned from a 54-day vacation to do nothing about the expiring ACA tax credits.
Families cannot trust Republicans with their healthcare.
Without ACA tax credits, 15,000 of my constituents face https://t.co/RdZcmDrpUy".
On November 17 at 02:30 UTC, Kelly described an incident involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and one of her constituents. She tweeted: "One of my constituents, who’s lived in the US since he was 4 years old, was kidnapped by ICE and is now missing.
He was at a gas station in South Holland when ICE agents detained him, disconnecting his phone call to his fiance.
ICE needs to be held accountable for their Gestapo".
Robin Kelly has consistently won re-election to Congress since first taking office. In previous elections she defeated Thomas Lynch in 2022 with over two-thirds of the vote; Theresa Raborn in 2020 with nearly four-fifths; David Merkle in 2018 with more than four-fifths; John Morrow in 2016 by almost four-fifths; and Eric Wallace in 2014 with more than three-quarters support from voters. These results underscore her strong electoral standing within Illinois’s second district.
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