Yesterday while conducting an oversight visit at Camp East Montana, I met the wife of an active duty service member being held despite the fact that she was awaiting her immigration case appeal. apnews.com/article/mili...

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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Today, immigrant children will not have legal representation in court because the Trump administration chose to eliminate a program for them. Over 20,000 children will have to fight deportation alone, and will likely be sent back to the very danger they fled 🧵 elpasomatters.org/2026/07/31/e...

Estrella del Paso shuts down Unaccompanied Children’s Program as Trump ends funding - El Paso Matters

The nonprofit, a ministry of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, provided free and reduced legal services to unaccompanied migrant children. Without federal funding, the organization shut down its childr...

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Every El Pasoan knows where they were on August 3rd, 2019. Today remains a solemn day, and despite the passing of time, seven years later our community continues to feel the pain, loss, and devastation from the senseless violence of that day.

Republicans told you they were getting rid of fraud, waste, and abuse. 

Instead, they made an already fragile healthcare system much more strained by forcing people off their insurance. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients

More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.

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Over the past two years, Republicans have used their power in DC to: - Kick millions of people off their healthcare and SNAP - Give billionaires and corporations massive tax breaks - Enable another forever war in Iran - Give ICE billions of dollars - Blow up our deficit

Republicans are sending nearly $100 billion more of your tax dollars for a war nobody wants in Iran. They are doing absolutely nothing to address the economic crisis created by Donald Trump.   Budgets and what we choose to fund are about our priorities, and Republicans aren’t prioritizing you.

“[Authoritarian governments target museums] because they believe that’s where you can control people’s minds. You can sustain a social order. You can control education. You can control the arts. You can control writing and creativity itself.” - David Blight www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Republicans press Smithsonian museum leader in contentious Hill hearing

The lawmakers called attacks on the museum “revisionist history” after a White House report accused it of “ideological capture.”

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Republicans will see that nearly 600k children in Texas were kicked off SNAP and try to convince you that they and their families were all committing fraud. The truth is Republicans chose to prioritize tax breaks for corporations and billionaires over feeding children. www.cbpp.org/blog/number-...

Number of Children Receiving SNAP Continues to Drop Under Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law

In the 19 states with publicly available data or that have shared unpublished data, the harmful Republican reconciliation law has taken SNAP food assistance away from more than 1 million children...

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For the last two years, House Republicans have not meaningfully engaged with Democrats in discussions about funding our government. Because they control every lever of government - the House, Senate and White House - Republicans consistently choose to go it alone. 🧵

Mt. Cristo Rey is a religious and cultural landmark that has been central to our community for generations. Rather than working with border communities to advance effective border security, the Trump Administration continues to disregard the people, history, and culture that make our region special.

Two more American service members lives lost in this war. Sending my heartfelt condolences to their loved ones and praying that the lost American is found safe and alive. This is tragic news.

I will not support sending $3.3 billion to a Netanyahu government that has ignored our laws, interests, and values under both the Biden and Trump administrations.

The reported decision by ICE to pause vehicle stops is a good first step. At least 22 people have been fired on by agents involved in Trump’s mass deportation plans, and six people, including three American citizens, have been killed in those shootings.

Two men in one week have been killed by ICE agents empowered by a radical Supreme Court intent on rolling back civil rights. Neither man was the target, making it likely that racial profiling ("Kavanaugh stops") played a role in both fatal shootings in Houston and Biddeford. 🧵

Not only is slashing nearly $200 billion for SNAP cruel, we're missing out on the economic benefits. Studies show that for every dollar invested in SNAP, $1.54 is generated for the economy. Republicans are making people go hungry and our economy miss out on over $300 billion.

For the first time in decades, Congress passed a bipartisan housing bill to address our nation’s housing crisis and help hard working Americans. Despite the needs it addresses and the overwhelming support it has, Donald Trump refused to sign the bill, but thankfully it became law anyway.

ICYMI: the snow flakes in the Trump administration are setting the groundwork for taking over and destroying one of our country's crown jewels: the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) 🧵 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can't be trusted

The report released late on Independence Day by the White House Domestic Policy Council comes in the midst of Trump’s aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington's most sacred cultural and hist...

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One year of the so called One Big Beautiful bill and working families have paid the price

Too often, veterans seeking home loans face confusion, misinformation, and predatory scams. 🧵 escobar.house.gov/news/documen...

Congresswoman Escobar Introduces Bipartisan VA Home Loan Navigator Act

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The 14th Amendment clearly states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” 🧵

A year after slashing a monstrous amount of funding for SNAP, Republicans will point to declining enrollment numbers for the program and call it "a success."   Here's why it's anything but, unless your goal is to increase the number of people going hungry...   🧵

It's been 14 years since DACA was enacted. I think about all the young people who’ve since graduated with degrees, started families, advanced in their careers, paid taxes, and loved the only country many of them have ever called home and more.

Every single Republican just voted to allow the Trump administration to build a wall through Big Bend. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/10/t...

Big Bend barrier ban dies in House Appropriations Committee

Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar sought to bar the Trump administration from using federal funds to build border barriers in the national park, which is rarely traversed by migrants.

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Republicans are asking taxpayers to hand ICE and CBP another $70 billion, even though the Department of Homeland Security still has roughly $100 billion from the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.” I voted NO. 🧵

Today, the Government Accountability Office released a report about the "waste and performance issues" at the $1.3 billion tent city known as Camp East Montana in my community. 🧵

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Last year, Republicans already gave CBP and ICE $140 billion, $100 billion of which remains unspent.   Despite American families struggling to pay their bills, Republicans want to give these reckless departments another $70 billion.

ICYMI: The Trump administration tried to have nearly 3 million people - including American citizens and permanent residents - classified as dead through the Social Security Administration. 🧵 on how, why, and why it matters www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claims

A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.

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Proud to visit with Rep María Salazar and @repescobar.bsky.social with Carlos and Angela Della Valle! Salazar and Escobar coauthored the Dignity Act, which provides a pathway for spouses of US citizens to stay together and other fixes to our broken immigration system. Thank you!

Congress has spoken. The House and the Senate have both voted on a war powers resolution to end the illegal, costly war that Trump and Netanyahu started in Iran. His terrible judgment has gotten American service members killed, created chaos and made the price of gas skyrocket. End the war now.