Gomez: “America needs a new housing boom: one that prioritizes affordability, fairness, and accessibility.” Watch full press conference here. Yesterday, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) hosted the first-ever National Summit on the Housing Affordability Crisis on Capitol Hill, bringing together lawmakers, advocates, labor, industry, and community leaders to confront America’s growing housing emergency. Thr... Read More »
Today, Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) released the following statement on a federal judge’s ruling: “A federal judge just confirmed what we’ve known all along: Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles is Illegal. Trump turned our city into a war zone, spreading fear and chaos in our community, but we stood up and fought back. “His use of our guardsmen and marines fo... Read More »
Watch full video here Rep. Jimmy Gomez talks with Alex Witt about President Trump's unlawful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, as well as the threat of a permanent troop presence in Democratic run cities from Donald Trump. Read More »
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif, 34th District), whose constituency includes Los Angeles’ Koreatown, has lodged a formal protest with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the detention of two Korean nationals, Taeheung Kim and Yeonsoo Go, raising concerns about unlawful procedures. According to Gomez’s office, the letter sent on August 22 to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem highlights procedural... Read More »
Rep. Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles thinks the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cleared out a migrant detention center ahead of his visit. The politician says ICE must have cleaned up the facility in question because they knew they were “breaking the law” amid activists’ calls of inhumane conditions. “It was straight out of ‘The Twilight Zone,’” Gomez told Jen Psaki on MSNBC’s Wednesday segme... Read More »
Los Angeles public schools are opening Thursday for the new academic year confronting an intense and historically unique moment: They will be operating in opposition to the federal government’s immigration raids and have set in motion aggressive moves to protect children and their immigrant parents...Trump administration policy is that no location — including a school — is off limits for enforceme... Read More »
Watch full video here Rep. Jimmy Gomez talks with Jen Psaki about his surprise when he was finally given access to a busy ICE detention facility only to find almost no one inside after prisoners and staff had been moved out on the day members of Congress came for an oversight visit. Read More »
On Monday, the Congress members got their first look at the basement facility known as B-18. But Reps. Brad Sherman, Judy Chu and Jimmy Gomez said that they were left with more questions than answers — and accused the government of sanitizing the center. “They wanted to show us nothing,” said Gomez, whose district includes downtown L.A. “It was nothing, it was like no one was there. It was deliber... Read More »
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) alongside a dozen individual members of the U.S. House of Representatives, filed the first lawsuit by members of the House of Representatives against the Trump-Vance administration, challenging its unlawful obstruction of congressional oversight into federal immigration detention facilities, where both Americans and noncitizens have been detained wi... Read More »
Watch full video here Congressman Jimmy Gomez joins CNN to speak about the effects of Trump’s tariffs, the possibility of Ghislaine Maxwell testifying, and the possibility of California and other majority Democratic states redrawing their districts as a form of retaliation to the Texas redistricting. Read More »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), along with Reps. Josh Harder (CA-10), Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), Alma Adams (NC-12), Jim Costa (CA-21), and 130 other Members of Congress reintroduced the Enhance Access to SNAP (EATS) Act, which would expand Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility to all college students attending 2- and 4-year universities who meet tradit... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Chair of the Congressional Dads Caucus, led fellow members in unveiling a new six-bill legislative package as part of their Babies Over Billionaires agenda, a push to lower costs for working families by eliminating harmful tariffs on essential baby products. Each bill in the package, introduced by a different member of the Dads Caucus, ta... Read More »
WASHINGTON, DC – Tonight, Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) voted to protect federal funding for public broadcasting, including NPR and PBS. “This bill is a handout to billionaires and a punch in the gut to working families and children. “When I was growing up, my family couldn’t afford cable, so we relied on public broadcasting for education, news, weather forecasts, public safety announcements,... Read More »
