WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is joining his Senate colleagues in demanding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio immediately ramp up communication and efforts to safely evacuate American citizens who have been left stranded in a crisis of Trump’s own making in the Middle East. Even after Donald Trump admitted that there was no... Read More about Murphy Joins Colleagues In Demanding Secretary Rubio Ramp Up Crisis Efforts To Safely Evacuate Americans Left Stranded By Trump's War Of Choice Against Iran

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement in response to President Trump’s firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: “Kristi Noem will be remembered for her outrageous incompetence in overseeing a department that killed American citizens, imprisoned hundreds of children, terrorized communities, and broke the law... Read More about Murphy Statement On Firing Of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to support U.S. Senator Tim Kaine’s (D-Va) War Powers Resolution, while urging his colleagues to force President Trump to fulfill his constitutional obligations and seek an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iran. Murphy slammed the... Read More about Murphy on Trump’s Illegal War with Iran: the Senate Must Debate an Authorization for the Use of Military Force

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday spoke at J Street’s 2026 Annual Conference, “Building Tomorrow: Regional Peace and Resilient Democracy.” Murphy laid out how the safety of the Jewish people is inherently linked to the survival of American democracy and why Donald Trump’s efforts to destroy our democracy, including his... Read More about Murphy At J Street Conference: American Democracy Is Vital To The Future Of The Jewish People

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a legal opinion on the Department of Homeland Security’s purchase of six Boeing 737 planes, which may include the $70 million dollar acquisition of a luxury plane for Secretary Kristi Noem’s travel. While DHS has... Read More about Murphy Demands Accountability For DHS' Illegal Purchase Of Six Airplanes

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. Murphy unequivocally condemned Trump’s choice to launch a war with Iran, which the American people do not want and has already cost American lives. Murphy argued Trump’s decision to take military action without congressional... Read More about Murphy On Face the Nation: It Won't Be Trump's Kids That Die For This War Of Choice With Iran

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement in response to Donald Trump launching an illegal war with Iran: “Trump's attacks on Iran are dangerously illegal and a mistake of staggering scale. Has he learned nothing from decades of U.S. military disaster in the Middle East? Has he spent not one single minute... Read More about Murphy Statement On Trump's Illegal War With Iran

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and a group of Democratic senators in introducing The American... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Senate Democrats To Introduce The American Homeownership Act To Stop Wall Street's Housing Grab And Get Homes Back Into The Hands Of Families

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and 18 of their Senate colleagues in calling on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to probe the cost of President Donald Trump’s... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Democratic Senate Colleagues In Demanding Independent Probe Of Funds Used By ICE, CBP To Carry Out Trump's Cruel Immigration Enforcement

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand reforms to the Department of Homeland Security. He shared horrifying stories of the Department of Homeland Security’s abuses under the Trump administration: from teargassing schools, to murdering American citizens with impunity, and... Read More about Murphy On DHS Funding Fight: We Are Demanding That ICE Follow The Law

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday questioned Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Surgeon General, during her confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Murphy confronted Dr. Means over allegations she exploited the trust... Read More about Murphy To Surgeon General Nominee: You Lied To The Public About Financial Conflicts Of Interest

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday announced he has invited Fereshteh Ganjavi as his guest for the People’s State of the Union, a rally on the National Mall counterprogramming President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. A refugee from Afghanistan, Ganjavi is the Founder and Executive Director of Elena’s Light, a... Read More about Murphy Announces People's State of the Union Guest, Fereshteh Ganjavi, Afghan Refugee And CT Nonprofit Founder

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday took part in a panel at the Munich Security Conference: “Outsmarting Ourselves? Risks and Rewards of the AI Race.” Murphy spoke alongside academics, European officials, and a Google executive to assess the emerging, and quickly evolving, risks AI poses to our economy, politics, and sense of... Read More about Murphy In Munich On AI: We Need Regulation And International Cooperation To Prevent Economic And Cultural Collapse

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined a group of Northeast Corridor Democrats in sending a letter to Senate Commerce and Appropriations Committee leadership, urging them to include advance appropriations for Amtrak and passenger rail programs in the next surface transportation reauthorization... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Northeast Corridor Democrats to Call For Advance Amtrak Appropriations

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined their Democratic Senate colleagues in demanding that U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reverse her directive to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti. The policy took effect February 3, 2026, though it was temporarily... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Call on Secretary Noem to Reverse Termination of TPS for Haiti

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security, questioned Jeremy Carl, nominee to be the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, about his white identitarian worldview and writings. Murphy demanded that Carl explain his longheld... Read More about Murphy Grills Unqualified Trump Nominee On His White Nationalist Views

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) took to the floor of the U.S. Senate today to call on his Republican colleagues to recognize Donald Trump’s unprecedented, attempted indictment of six Democratic lawmakers as a grave threat to our democracy and unite with Democrats to put a stop to Trump’s relentless assault on free speech. Murphy... Read More about Murphy to Republicans On Trump's Attempts to Jail Democratic Lawmakers: We Can't Let This Democracy Die On Our Watch

WASHINGTON–In response to the Trump administration banning local libraries as passport acceptance facilities, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined their colleagues in a bipartisan and bicameral letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the secretary to extend the existing program while Congress works to... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Bicameral Colleagues Urge Extension Of Library Passport Acceptance Program

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand accountability following new reporting that a firm controlled by the U.A.E.’s National Security Advisor secretly purchased a 49% stake in the Trump family’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. The deal steered millions of dollars to Trump and his... Read More about Murphy on Trump's Secret Deal with the UAE: The White House is a Non-Stop Corruption Machine

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Sunday appeared on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream. As Americans decisively turn against the Trump administration’s lawless immigration enforcement operations, Murphy made the case for why Republicans and Democrats must... Read More about Murphy On Fox News: The Country Is Less Safe Because Of ICE