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"A lot of BIS’s dysfunction seems to come from administration leadership’s baseless distrust and marginalization of career staff, despite the fact that deep technical expertise is essential to successfully develop and implement effective export control regulations,” said Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a California Democrat and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over US export control programs.
During an April 2 news conference, Mayor Karen Bass and U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Los Angeles, announced that dollars from a federal package, called Community Project Funding, signed into law in February will support housing projects, homeless programs and transportation initiatives.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove, L.A. Councilmember Curren Price, and other Los Angeles leaders joined in formally welcoming the newly retired Army chaplain.
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, who represents the 37th District where the hospital is located, says when the Trump administration cut $1 trillion in Medicaid last year the impacts were especially devastating for her district, which has the fourth largest Medicaid enrollment in the country.
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (N.M.), the chair of the DWC, along with Reps. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.), Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) and Deborah Ross (D-N.C.), signed the letter. Scholten and Sykes are the caucus’s vice chairs, while Kamlager-Dove and Ross co-chair its policy task force.
"I’m sick to my stomach. The fate of millions of innocent civilians now depends on the whims of a sick and demented man. This is pure evil. Republicans, if there were ever a time to stand up, it’s now. We must invoke the 25th Amendment before it’s too late," Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) wrote on X.
Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a Democrat from California, wrote on X: "'It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare; - Donald Trump, just days before he requested: $1.5 TRILLION in defense spending, a 40 percent increase; $350 BILLION for his illegal war on Iran; And $152 MILLION to reopen Alcatraz. HELL NO to it all."
“And instead of just supporting their team, you have people worried about getting profiled and snatched up,” Kamlager-Dove said. “That’s not how you encourage tourism. That’s not how you celebrate a sport.”
Kamlager-Dove emphasized the urgency of the city’s affordability crisis, noting that $2.5 million will go directly toward expanding affordable housing. “Far too many Angelenos are at risk of being priced out of the city they’re proud to call home,” she said.
Federal authorities have allocated nearly $3 million to bolster affordable housing and transit infrastructure across Los Angeles, following a joint funding push by Mayor Karen Bass and U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove.