Tejana. Fronteriza. Proudly representing El Paso in the U.S. House of Representatives.
El Paso, TX
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The terror and lawlessness must stop. ICE continues to violently target legal residents - and American citizens - without transparency or accountability. Still, after shooting Wilber Rafael Garces Perez yesterday, ICE announced plans to deport him.
ICE cannot shoot someone and then disappear them to sidestep accountability. Texans deserve answers and a full, independent investigation into the shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Read more:
Wilber Garces Perez was shot in the back by an ICE agent in Austin. Now he's in detention with the bullet still in his body.
Today, 100+ Members of Congress are demanding that ICE get him medical care, stop trying to deport a key witness, and immediately release the video footage.
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Brutal community note.
House Republicans passed over 70 bills this week alone — that adds to our total of over 900 bills passed through the House so far this Congress.
We’ve DELIVERED for Americans by:
🇺🇸 Enacting the largest middle and working class tax cut in US history
🇺🇸 Creating new incentives to build and hire American
🇺🇸 Adding the biggest boost to job creation in decades
🇺🇸 Establishing Trump accounts for every American child
🇺🇸 Restoring safety and order to our cities
🇺🇸 Stopping American deaths from the scourge of fentanyl
🇺🇸Closing the border
By contrast, the Democrat agenda is very simple: grievance politics, bigger government, higher taxes, open borders, and zero security.
Community note
The 119th congress was the least productive in history, no congress has enacted less legislation or laws. Johnson has cancelled a total 63 scheduled voting days in the house, granting members an extra 2 months PTO, with no house votes scheduled until after the election.
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On this POW/MIA Recognition Day, we pause to remember the brave servicemembers who were taken as prisoners of war and those who remain missing in action.
My thoughts are with the families still waiting for answers. They are not - and never will be - forgotten.
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Trump's war in Iran has cost Americans $38 billion.
With that money, we could've funded more than 3 years of Head Start.
We could've paid for almost 5 million people to get a two year degree at a community college.
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That's enough to forgive student loan debt for nearly a million borrowers.
We could've built over 73,000 affordable housing units across the country.
There's so many other things we could've funded to improve your life, but the Trump administration started this reckless war.
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Republicans kicked millions off their healthcare and food assistance programs with their One Big Beautiful Bill.
But another less talked about provision? Massive corporate tax breaks that AI and data center companies are eagerly taking advantage of.
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Imagine if the president cared about making your life better with the same intensity and dedication he has for trolling and pettiness?
NEW: The National Weather Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will be required to refer to "Lake America" in all forecast products.
The agency, which falls under the Department of Commerce, is bound by Executive Order 14422.
As such, the Weather Service now needs to adjust its software, and mapping interfaces, to modify Lake Ontario's moniker to Lake America for at least the next 861 days.
The National Weather Service states that "work is underway to update naming conventions as quickly as possible."
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Our nation has begged its government to do the right thing and release every document in the Epstein Files. The President's DOJ has withheld more than 3 million pages.
I joined the discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act II to force a vote on allowing state attorneys general, victims of Epstein, and Members of Congress to challenge the DOJ on its failure to comply with the full release of the files. Survivors deserve nothing less.
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Pigs are sentient beings that feel pain and suffering. They are sensitive, gentle, and smart creatures that are treated with incredible cruelty before they are sent to be slaughtered.
I have a bill to ban these use of these crates. Tell your member of Congress to sign on.
Imagine living like this for FIVE YEARS. Your entire life. This is what mother pigs endure in factory farms across the globe.
My wife @rose__patterson and her org @AnimalRising released this footage at a supposedly high welfare farm today. This has to stop.
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Today, I voted in favor of the Senate legislation to fund our government, protect vulnerable populations, continue funding vital programs, and avoid yet another Republican shutdown.
This is a bipartisan CR that funds our government through mid-December; this is what happens when the Republican majority works with Democrats — agreement is indeed possible.
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Happy National Parks Week
SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer.
The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.
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My heart breaks for Cristy, her children and Hedar who must feel so betrayed by the country he is sacrificing for.
There are far too many families like theirs who are being targeted instead of supported.
Prior to Trump's second administration, ICE would typically allow immediate family members of U.S. troops to adjust their legal status even if they had been issued a final order of removal.
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Rep. Veronica Escobar retweeted
REMINDER: The single biggest driver of our national debt for the last 25 YEARS have been Republican-led tax cuts.
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“I fully support the administration for pausing the construction at Big Bend” is crazy when the administration was *responsible* for the construction in the first place!
Paxton could’ve sued to stop this through the AG’s office months ago, but that would’ve meant having a spine.
New statement from @KenPaxtonTX on CBP’s decision to pause construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend NP.
Paxton supports the move: “Destroying one of our state’s greatest natural treasures with unnecessary roads and barriers is not smart border security.”
#TXSEN
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