Social Justice

WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman John Garamendi (CA-08) joined Rep. Lou Correa (CA-46) and House Democrats pressed U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on the agency’s chilling actions of federal agents in California. In a letter to Secretary Noem, Democrats expressed deep concerns about the Administration’s lack of transparency when rounding up individuals with no criminal record.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman John Garamendi (CA-08) issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to limit national injunctions blocking President Trump’s executive order targeting birthright citizenship:

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-08) issued the following statement following U.S. Senator Padilla’s handcuffing and detainment during Trump’s Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference:  

“This is appalling and unacceptable. California’s U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was doing his job of conducting administrative oversight and expressing his right to free speech. Shoving, handcuffing, and throwing a United States Senator on the ground just for asking a question crosses an unprecedented line.

WASHINGTON DC - Today, Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-8) released the following statement on President Trump’s budget claw backs, which eliminates $8.3 billion in funding for U.S. foreign assistance and $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting:

“Gutting U.S. foreign assistance and public broadcasting funding will make America less safe.  

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA-03) released the following statement after voting NO on Trump and House Republicans’ devastating budget bill:

“Today, House Republicans—at the direction of Donald Trump—conducted the biggest theft in U.S. history. Their budget reconciliation bill is the largest transfer of wealth from the country’s most vulnerable to its richest.

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-08) released the following statement following President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress:    

It’s shameful, immoral and dangerous that President Donald Trump, on his first day in office, pardoned the violent rioters who committed the most serious attack on democracy since the Civil War.