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April 23, 2025

Out gay Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) sent letters demanding answers to his “grave concerns” about why gay makeup artist Andry José Hernandez Romero was sent to the CECOT torture camp in El Salvador.


April 22, 2025

Following a brief trip to El Salvador, Rep. Robert Garcia on Tuesday said he and other Democrats will continue to pressure the Trump Administration to steer away from what they say is a constitutional crisis and facilitate the release of Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man who was deported last month despite a court order protecting him from removal.


April 21, 2025

Four Democratic members of Congress who traveled to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia said Monday that they were denied a request to meet with the man who was wrongly deported by the U.S. government and sent to a Salvadoran prison.


April 17, 2025

A pair of congressmembers will soon introduce a piece of federal legislation aimed at accelerating the aviation industry’s transition to unleaded fuel alternatives.


April 17, 2025

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) is demanding answers from the Trump-Vance administration on its deportation of Andry Hernández Romero, a gay Venezuelan makeup artist who was sent to a prison in El Salvador in violation of a federal court order and in the absence of credible evidence supporting the government’s claims about his affiliation with a criminal gang.


April 16, 2025

Out gay Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) is clapping back at fellow House Democrats who say the party should not be so focused on the Trump administration’s illegal deportation of hundreds of mostly Venezuelan men to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador.


April 15, 2025

Two members of House Democratic leadership are trying to send an official congressional delegation to the El Salvadorian prison where the Trump administration is sending deportees, Axios has learned.


April 14, 2025

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) and other House Democrats are demanding that Department of Homeland Security officials justify their attempts last week to speak with students at two Los Angeles elementary schools.

Garcia and 17 other Democrats signed a letter sent Friday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, requesting a briefing about the operation.


April 11, 2025

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) called Elon Musk the “most unlikeable person” in the U.S. during a Thursday speech in support of his party’s push to oust the tech giant from his White House role by May 30.


April 8, 2025

Congressman Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) on Monday reintroduced the People Over Parking Act, a federal bill aimed at easing the nation’s housing crisis by eliminating mandatory parking minimums in local zoning laws.