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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO-02)

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), Chair of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, released the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board:

“Kevin Warsh is fully qualified to serve as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and his decades of experience will serve him well as he works to ensure American families have confidence in a stable economy. President Trump made an excellent decision to nominate Kevin, and I know he will be a thoughtful steward of his responsibilities as Chair as we all work to fight inflation and support strong economic growth for our nation.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Don Beyer (D-VA)

Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Senior House Democrat on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee and member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, today urged the Senate to subject President Trump’s Fed Chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, to “hard questions about independence and monetary policy.” 

Beyer said:

“Trump chose Kevin Warsh for Fed Chair because his father-in-law is a billionaire donor, the brains behind Trump’s idiotic scheme to invade Greenland. He also chose him because Warsh has shown willingness to wildly alter his views on monetary policy based on who is in the White House, and because he is ‘out of central casting.’

“The Senate should note these bad qualifications and remember Warsh’s awful track record at the Fed during the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession. These concerns along with Trump’s attacks on the Fed mean this nominee must face hard questions about independence and monetary policy. Warsh can’t just get a rubber stamp.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Bill Foster (11th District of Illinois)

Washington, DC — Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement:

“As the top Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, I am willing to keep an open mind about the nomination of Kevin Warsh. Having served on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors during the 2008 financial crisis, he has seen firsthand what happens when excessive financial risk is ignored and oversight fails in the run-up to the collapse of an investment bubble. 

“He should appreciate the importance of an independent Federal Reserve, and keep that in mind when Trump inevitably pressures him to ignore economic data in favor of political expediency.”

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Pete Aguilar (31 CD Ca)

The community project funding will help the City of Rialto improve public safety by purchasing essential surveillance technology and software for emergency response and crime prevention

Rep. Pete Aguilar (CA-33) announced that he secured $1,031,000 in community project funding for the City of Rialto’s Police Station Technology, Safety and Equipment Project. This grant funding will improve public safety and security by allowing the Rialto Police Department to develop a Real-Time Crime Center and Dispatch Center to better respond to incidents, purchase essential surveillance technology and strengthen the department’s cybersecurity. You can watch the full video of the press conference here and find photos from the event above and here.
“It is crucial that our law enforcement is equipped with the tools they need to do their jobs so they can keep residents safe,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar. “That’s why I am so proud that I secured over $1 million in funding for the hardworking men and women of the Rialto Police Department who protect our community every day. This project will improve public safety and reduce crime by allowing the Rialto Police Department to develop a Real-Time Crime Center and Dispatch Center to more effectively monitor and respond to incidents. I’ll continue to fight for more resources that help make life better and safer for Inland Empire families.”
“With Congressman Aguilar’s support, the Rialto Police Department will have the tools to respond faster and keep our community safer,” said Mayor Joe Baca, City of Rialto. “The new Real-Time Crime Center is a major step forward in protecting our residents and giving our officers the technology they need.”
“I’d like to express my appreciation to Congressman Aguilar for supporting this investment in the Rialto Police Department’s Real-Time Crime Center,” said Mark Kling, Chief of Police, Rialto Police Department. “This funding will help to establish Rialto as the premier police agency in the County and help keep our community safe well into the future.”
In January 2026, Rep. Aguilar helped pass the Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act of 2026, which included $7.4 million in federal community project funding grants for seven projects in California’s 33rd Congressional District. 

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (8th District of New York)

Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press availability, where he emphasized that Democrats are committed to using taxpayer dollars to make life better for the American people and hold the Trump administration accountable for brutalizing everyday Americans.

LEADER JEFFRIES: Taxpayer dollars should be used to make life better for the American people, to drive down the high cost of living, to fix our broken healthcare system and to deliver a government that actually promotes the health, the safety and the economic well-being of the American people. Instead, Donald Trump and his administration have been using taxpayer dollars to brutalize everyday Americans, kill American citizens and violently target law-abiding immigrant families. It’s unacceptable, it’s unconscionable and it’s un-American.

This administration continues to weaponize the Department of Justice, weaponize the Department for Homeland Security, weaponize the power of government to undermine the ability of everyday Americans to live their best life, because they’re so consumed with jamming their right-wing extremism down the throats of the American people. We will not be intimidated by any of their actions. We will stay the course as it relates to making sure that we actually fund the government in a manner that is consistent with our values, consistent with the Constitution and consistent with the American way of life.

It’s a big difference between the Trump administration, Republicans, on the one hand, and how Democrats want to spend your taxpayer dollars on the other. Republicans, in their One Big Ugly Bill, enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, ripped healthcare away from more than 14 million Americans, and at the same period of time, took $186 billion from SNAP, literally stealing food from the mouths of hungry children, seniors and veterans. And in that same One Big Ugly Bill, use taxpayer dollars to give the Department of Homeland Security and ICE a slush fund that’s been used to unleash a killing machine in Minneapolis, using taxpayer dollars, literally, to kill American citizens in cold blood.

That’s what Republicans have done in their One Big Ugly Bill. That’s their policy, and Democrats are going to continue to push back aggressively against it. We want to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security conducts itself in a manner that elevates public safety, not undermines it. And the American people are demanding accountability, and that’s what Democrats are going to deliver.

Full press conference can be watched here.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA)

Washington, D.C. — Former U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power voiced support for legislation introduced by Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-32) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-NY) that would direct the Government Accountability Office to conduct an independent review of deaths linked to the dismantling of USAID programs. The measure, known as the Evan Anzoo Memorial Act, is backed by all House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats.

“For decades, USAID operated with strong bipartisan backing, including — during the Biden Administration — from the Republican-led House of Representatives,” Power said. “The dismantling of USAID, which has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives and devastated livelihoods around the world, was accompanied by sweeping mischaracterizations of the agency’s work and its public servants. This lawless decision is not only one of the cruelest and deadliest acts in American history; it is an unfathomable foreign policy blunder.” 

“Secretary Rubio came before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and lied to America when he claimed ‘no one has died’ from Trump’s USAID shuttering. That was a bold-faced lie – but if Republicans are so confident in his answer, they should support my legislation to have Congress’s independent, nonpartisan watchdog conduct an independent and formal review of how many people have died as a result of this evil policy,” Sherman said. “Instead, all House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans voted against this legislation in September because they are afraid of the truth.” 

“Despite numerous denials and outright obfuscation by the administration – including Secretary Rubio’s claim that no one has died as a result of U.S. foreign assistance cuts – the reality is far more damning. Millions of preventable deaths will have occurred as a direct result of Trump’s evisceration of USAID. These cruel decisions demand real accountability and oversight. The Evan Anzoo Memorial Act will help ensure the American public and Congress confront the true human consequences of these policies,” said Ranking Member Meeks. 

Despite top U.S. research institutions and publications reporting on hundreds of thousands of deaths occurring in 2025 due to the Trump Administration’s USAID’s shuttering, Secretary Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that “no one has died” from USAID’s dismantling, and that “no children are dying on [his] watch.” 

Sherman and Meek’s efforts are named after Evan Anzoo, a 5-year-old boy born with HIV and kept alive through American health aid. After the Trump Administration cut of USAID programs overnight, Evan lost access to his HIV medication and died shortly after. Evan is just one of the hundreds of thousands of USAID recipients who died after the Trump Administration stripped them of lifesaving care. 

The American people overwhelmingly support providing lifesaving foreign aid around the world; they deserve to know the true impact of the Trump Administration’s deadly dismantling of USAID and whether the Secretary of State lied before Congress. The Evan Anzoo Memorial Act will create a formal report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’s watchdog, as to how many people around the world have died as a result of this policy. 

All House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats joined Sherman and Meeks in introducing this legislation: Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Rep. Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Rep. Brad Schneider (IL-10), Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Rep. Jim Costa (CA-21), Rep. Sarah McBride (DE-AL), Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), Rep. Johnny Olszewski (MD-02), Rep. Bill Keating (MA-09), Rep. Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Rep. Dina Titus (NV-01), Rep. George Latimer (NY-16), Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-36), Rep. Greg Stanton (AZ-04), Rep. Julie Johnson (TX-32), Rep. Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), Rep. Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Rep. Gabe Amo (RI-01), Rep. Ami Bera (CA-06).

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Chris Pappas (D-NH)

Despite repeated outreach, DHS has failed to establish clear lines of communication with the Town of Merrimack following reports ICE plans to establish a processing center in the town

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Chris Pappas (D-NH)

Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced he is calling for the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem. He is also cosponsoring articles of impeachment introduced against Noem in the House.

“Secretary Noem is not fit to continue in her position. If she does not resign, Congress must start proceedings to impeach her. Under her leadership, we have seen violations of due process and our constitutional values, enforcement operations inconsistent with the law and accepted standards and protocols, and a failure to coordinate with local law enforcement. In the wake of the killing of two citizens in Minnesota, she blatantly lied to the public by claiming both individuals were ‘domestic terrorists.’ She has not provided the leadership and transparency that Congress and Americans deserve. We need an investigation of the shootings in Minnesota, a thorough evaluation of training and standards, and full accountability. Secretary Noem has lost the trust of the American people and has violated her oath. She must be removed from office.”

Last week, Pappas introduced the PUBLIC SAFETY Act to redirect almost $75 billion in excess funding from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and send it instead to local law enforcement programs to help hire and train 200,000 local cops nationwide. Pappas’s bill would not affect ICE’s regular appropriations, leaving the agency with historically normal funding levels to conduct traditional immigration enforcement operations.

Pappas proposed his legislation as an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026 when it was considered in the House last week, but the amendment was blocked by the Republican majority. Pappas subsequently voted against the legislation. 

Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Pete Aguilar (31 CD Ca)

The grant funding will allow the City of San Bernardino to fight crime and improve safety by purchasing unmarked mobile surveillance vehicles, surveillance cameras and license plate readers

Rep. Pete Aguilar (CA-33) announced that he secured $1,031,000 in funding for the City of San Bernardino’s Mobile Crime Prevention Program. This critical funding will improve public safety by expanding and supporting the City’s surveillance technology, enhancing law enforcement’s ability to monitor and respond to incidents more effectively, prevent and solve crimes and apprehend criminals. You can watch the full video of the press conference here and find photos from the event above and here.
“I first ran for Congress in order to bring home federal dollars that help improve the quality of life for working families here in the Inland Empire, including making our community safer,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar. “That’s why I am so proud to have secured more than $1 million in community project funding for the City of San Bernardino’s Mobile Crime Prevention Program. This project will improve public safety by giving our law enforcement the tools they need to better prevent and solve crimes, apprehend criminals and respond to incidents. This funding is an investment in our community’s future and marks a step toward a stronger, safer San Bernardino. I’ll continue to fight for more resources and to improve Californians’ lives here in the Inland Empire.”
“Public safety is the foundation of a strong San Bernardino,” said Mayor Helen Tran, City of San Bernardino. “When residents feel safe, communities thrive, businesses grow, and families can take pride in their neighborhoods. These federal dollars will help us strengthen that foundation and better meet the demands of our city. On behalf of the City Council, our dedicated public safety professionals, and the residents of San Bernardino, thank you, Congressman Aguilar, for standing with our city and investing in the safety of our community. We look forward to continuing our partnership and to putting these funds to work for the residents of San Bernardino.”
“Last year, our department experienced a remarkable reduction in crime, thanks to the hard work of our officers, professional staff, and strong partnerships with our community,” said Darren Goodman, Chief of Police, San Bernardino Police Department. “This funding allows us to build on that success by investing in technology that will further enhance public safety, improve our response capabilities, and help us continue driving crime down across San Bernardino.”
In January 2026, Rep. Aguilar helped pass the Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act of 2026, which included $7.4 million in federal community project funding grants for seven projects in California’s 33rd Congressional District. 

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (8th District of New York)

Know Your Immigration Rights

If you or a loved one encounter immigration enforcement officials, it is essential that you know your rights and have prepared your household for all possible outcomes.

Ask for a warrant: The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects you from unreasonable search and seizure. You do not have to open your door until you see a valid warrant to enter your home or search your belongings.

Your right to remain silent: The Fifth Amendment protects your right to remain silent and not incriminate yourself. You are not required to share any personal information such as your place of birth, immigration status or criminal history.

Always consult an attorney: You have a right to speak with an attorney. You do not have to sign anything or hand officials any documents without speaking to an attorney. Try to identify and consult one in advance.

The New York City Office of Civil Justice and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) support a variety of free immigration legal services through local nonprofit legal organizations. To access these resources, dial 311 and say “Action NYC,” call the MOIA Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 800-354-0365 Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. or visit MOIA’s website.

Learn more here: KNOW YOUR IMMIGRATION RIGHTS  – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries