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Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., introduced legislation Wednesday to redirect $175 billion set aside for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection under President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" to affordable-housing programs. Gomez called the funding an "anti-immigrant slush fund" and said the Make Housing Affordable and Defend Democracy Act… Read more »

California U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat representing the Los Angeles area, filed an ambitious new bill on Wednesday which would redirect billions put aside by the Trump administration to fund its immigration crackdown toward helping Americans become homeowners. "My intention with this bill is to tackle one of the biggest crises that our country is facing, which is the… Read more »

Speaking on the House floor on Wednesday, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) accused President Trump and ICE operations of not going after only violent criminals in immigration crackdowns. Full Video Read more »

Rep. Gomez calls for Secretary Pete Hegseth to be fired over the Signal message leaks and slams Republicans' ruthless immigration policies following Trump’s plans to target Somali refugees. Full Video Read more »

A Democrat representative has laid out a plan to take $175 billion of funding from Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill for use on the "number one issue" of 2026. California U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez suggested the housing affordability crisis could be solved with money cited in the upcoming bill but it would go to waste on the Trump administration's crackdown on… Read more »

Rep. Gomez slams Trump’s ruthless immigration policies following a U.S. Border Patrol operation in Charlotte, North Carolina, on MSNBC. Full Interview here Read more »

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We're on the 28th day of the government shutdown. At a press conference this morning, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson complained about being tired: "People keep coming to me, 'You look so tired on TV.' I am so tired because we're not sleeping a lot. We're working overtime." Working overtime? FWIW, according to AJC, they've only worked about 20 days in the past 16 weeks. The… Read more »

Rep. Gomez rebukes Senator Fetterman for abandoning the working class and siding with Republicans over the government shutdown. Full Video   Read more »

David Adler, a 33-year-old political economist from Los Angeles, has returned to the U.S. after more than two weeks at sea and five days in an Israeli prison. Adler told LAist his upbringing in Los Angeles Jewish community motivated him to help organize the Global Sumud Flotilla, a step that eventually led to his detention by the Israeli government. “Here comes a Jewish kid from… Read more »