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A top Democratic money man is putting his muscle behind boosting Latino voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election.
Henry Muñoz III, the former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is undertaking a new effort to raise money from Latino donors and to mobilize Latino voters, as party leaders seek to maximize turnout from a key demographic whose support for Democrats has been softer than expected in recent election cycles.
"It's not going to be good enough this time around to wait until a few months before the election to reach out to the Latino community," Muñoz told The Hill.
"We have an incredible opportunity to grow our support, but we can't treat it like just a fundraising or get-out-the-vote opportunity, we need programs that make us an integral part of the everyday lives of Latinos."
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler is in a bind.
A growing number of Democratic committee members are pushing Nadler to take more aggressive steps to force President Donald Trump and top administration officials to comply with a host of congressional subpoenas. Some lawmakers even want Congress to dust off its little-used authority to fine or even jail witnesses, something that the House hasn't done in more than 80 years and is ill-prepared to execute.
But Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team worry that such moves, while pleasing to a party base that loathes the president, would backfire and boost Trump politically.
Unaccompanied migrant children are now being held in U.S. custody for more than twice as long, on average, than they were four years ago, according to government data.
In the 2015 fiscal year, officials with the Office of
Refugee Resettlement, the agency tasked with caring for unaccompanied minors, released children to sponsors within an average of 34 days. But in the first half of this fiscal year, that average jumped to 77 days.
While officials point to the surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the US.-Mexico border as contributing to delays, immigration advocates argue that stricter screening procedures have exacerbated the situation by deterring more sponsors from coming forward.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Garcia (TX-29) joined Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) to introduce the Asylum Seeker Protection Act.
Heard of Chrissy Houlahan? Of course not. Does the name Debbie Mucarsel-Powell ring a bell? Probably not. Veronica Escobar, Angie Craig, Jahana Hayes… never heard of them. But you've definitely heard of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar. All seven were women elected to Congress in 2018 for the first time, yet only two seem to get any attention. The question is why.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia addressed concerns Thursday that the Democrats' multiple investigations into President Trump could hurt their party politically in upcoming elections: "It's about our democracy."
"There is a factor of that, that we have to consider, but what I think is important is this really is not about the polls, it's not about politics, it's not even about this one president. It's about our democracy. It's about the check and balances. It's about the way our entire system works," the Texas Democrat said on CNN's "Newsroom" show.
"If we had everyone start ignoring subpoenas that they got at any court at any level, what would happen to our justice system," she said. "I think we need to look at the big picture, and I really cannot focus just on a poll. We've got to look at the whole thing."
More than 20 Democratic lawmakers have recently asked a federal appeals court to invalidate President Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Sylvia Garcia released the following statement after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Sylvia Garcia released the following statement after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress:
Like a lot of people, I've been jockeying between rage and despair over the state of our national government. But when I walk into Mary Gay Scanlon's Washington, D.C., office at 8 a.m. on a Tuesday in late February, I'm ready for a close and personal view of the mess, with something of a twist: I've come to spend the day with one of the Women in White.