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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) and Don Beyer (VA-08) today reintroduced the Choose Medicare Act, a bold proposal to open Medicare to all Americans with a new “Part E” and builds on the system we have today by allowing Medicare to compete with private health insurance. U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have introduced companion legislation in the S... Read More »

WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) — Chair of the Congressional Renters Caucus — and Suzan DelBene (WA-01) reintroduced their Affordable Housing Equity Act of 2025, legislation that would strengthen the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) by providing a targeted basis boost for housing developments that serve extremely low-income (ELI) households. “We’re in a housing crisis, an... Read More »

GOMEZ: “If it can happen to Alex, it can happen to any of those senators on the other side, or any member of Congress, or anybody.” You can watch the press conference HERE. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), and members of the California congressional delegation held an emergency press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to condemn the Trump... Read More »

You can watch the fireside chat HERE. WASHINGTON, DC – Ahead of Father’s Day, the Congressional Dads Caucus partnered with Equimundo to host a special fireside chat highlighting the mental health challenges facing working parents, shifting gender norms, and the rising demand for policies that support fathers as caregivers. The event brought together Dads Caucus Chairman Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), E... Read More »

WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), Representative Nanette Barragán (CA-44), and 39 other California Delegation Representatives are demanding President Doanld Trump immediately withdraw the National Guard and U.S. Marines from Los Angeles, California. In a bicameral letter sent today, the lawmakers condemn the deployments as an unlawful overreach that ... Read More »

"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in Congress includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into the administration’s mass deportation agenda. Republican leaders capitalized Tuesday on the demonstrations in Los Angeles, where people are protesting Trump’s immigration raids at Home Depot and other places, to make the case... Read More »

LOS ANGELES – Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) is demanding immediate accountability from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after he and Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46), Luz Rivas (CA-29), and Norma Torres (CA-35) were unlawfully denied entry to the ICE detention facility inside the Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles on June 7. “What happened on June 7 was a flagrant, un... Read More »

"Three Democratic members of Congress from California and two from New York said over the weekend that they were barred from entering federal detention centers in their respective states to check on people who were detained in immigration raids or in protests against the raids. All five members — Representatives Maxine Waters, Jimmy Gomez and Norma Torres of California and Representatives Adriano ... Read More »

LOS ANGELES, CA – Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s latest executive order banning entry from 12 countries, which takes effect today: “This ban has nothing to do with security—it’s a cruel political stunt meant to stoke fear and distract from Trump slashing Medicaid to give billionaires more tax breaks. Using a tragedy as cover to un... Read More »

"Amidst the ICE activity and protests around the Los Angeles area on Saturday, several Southern California congressional representatives said they tried to enter a federal building downtown where they said immigrant families are being detained. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, said he and several other Democratic House members attempted to visit the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on Saturday, J... Read More »

Watch full interview here Members of the California National Guard arrived in Los Angeles Sunday morning in response to days of protest against federal immigration raids. On Saturday, President Donald Trump moved to deploy the 2,000 members over the opposition of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, who say the move is inflammatory and unnecessary. California Congressman Jimmy ... Read More »

"The Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive moves on immigration are pulling Democrats back into a border security debate they had tried to ignore. For months, Democrats scarred by the politics of the issue sought to sidestep President Donald Trump’s immigration wars — focusing instead on the economy, tariffs or, in the case of deportations, due process concerns. But in the span of a week,... Read More »

You can watch Rep. Gomez and his colleagues attempting to get in HERE. LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, Representatives Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Luz Rivas (CA-29), Norma Torres (CA-35) and Lou Correa (CA-46) were unlawfully denied entry to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building while attempting to conduct congressional oversight of reported ICE detentions of immigrant families under unsafe and degrading condi... Read More »

Representative Jimmy Gomez called reports of immigrants being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the basement of a federal building in his Los Angeles district "scary," telling Newsweek he has "concerns that this facility is not meant to hold individuals overnight, and that it can actually cause harm to the people that are being held there." An ICE spokesperson rejected repor... Read More »

LOS ANGELES, CA – Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) issued the following statement in response to disturbing reports that immigrants showing up for routine check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles were detained and held in basement rooms — some overnight — under inhumane conditions: “These are very disturbing reports from LA's Roybal Federal Building. Law-abiding as... Read More »