Defending Democracy
Congressman Garcia believes that one of the biggest threats facing the Unites States today comes from efforts to undermine our democratic process by restricting access to the ballot and attacking the legitimacy of the electoral process. Congressman Garcia knows that we need leaders who will work to defend our civil rights, and this starts with making voting accessible to every American regardless of their background.
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When he was elected the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee in June, Rep. Robert Garcia at once gained a powerful perch and a pressing problem.
Colleagues elected Garcia with a mandate to hold President Donald Trump’s administration to account. He’d pitched himself as an energetic personality who cared about good governance and accountability. But with Democrats locked out of power, he had few tools available to carry out his mission besides strongly worded letters to federal agencies and speeches during committee hearings.
This afternoon, MeidasTouch obtained exclusive information revealing that leading Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, led by Congressman Robert Garcia and Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, have launched an investigation into the Trump Administration’s use of private and unauthorized social media platforms for official government business.
NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with California Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat, on an investigation he is leading into arrests of U.S. citizens by federal immigration authorities.
ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST:
The Trump administration's aggressive immigration crackdown targeting undocumented people is also sweeping up U.S. citizens.
GEORGE RETES: They dragged me out of the car, and I'm not trying to fight. I'm not trying to resist. And I could provide proof I'm a citizen. They didn't care.
Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia are launching an investigation into President Donald Trump’s reported demand that his own Justice Department hand over $230 million as compensation for past federal investigations into him, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) released the following statement following the City of Long Beach and Long Beach Airport’s decision to reject Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem’s request to display a partisan video inside the airport terminal.
“I commend the City of Long Beach and the Long Beach Airport for rejecting Secretary Kristi Noem’s request to play a partisan and outrageous video at our airport terminal.
We are in the middle of Donald Trump’s government shutdown, because Donald Trump and Republicans care more about giving tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations than protecting your health care.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) released the following statement on the news of a ceasefire and peace negotiations happening in Israel and Gaza.
“We should all welcome the hopeful news of a ceasefire and peace negotiations happening in Israel and Gaza. All the hostages must come home safely and we must end this horrific nightmare immediately. Israeli & Palestinian lives have the same value and all deserve a lasting peace,” said Congressman Robert Garcia.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, is demanding in a letter Thursday that committee Chair James Comer schedule a deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell following the Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal of her criminal sex-trafficking conviction.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) slammed President Trump for signaling Monday that he could “take a look” at issuing a pardon for convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.
“I just want to add just how outrageous it was for Donald Trump, in today’s White House interview that he had with the press, to even, somehow, lean into the idea of a pardon for a convicted sexual trafficker who herself abused girls, walked them to Jeffrey Epstein’s home where they continued to get more abuse,” Garcia told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
Democrats may investigate President Trump over his repeated claims that a $17 trillion flood of foreign and domestic investment has poured into the U.S. during his administration.
Trump has boasted that the supposed investment has been sparked by companies expanding operations or moving business to the U.S. after he imposed a raft of global tariffs.