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In letters sent this month, Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, both Democrats, requested the U.S. Department of Justice investigate the incident on July 4, 2022, at the Men’s Central Jail.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) have written letters to Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland echoing that request.

“I don’t know if this is what a trifecta is going to look like, but this is certainly what it’s going to look like to have President Musk and First Lady Donald Trump controlling a Republican Congress,” said Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) “You’re going to see deals getting blown up, lying and reneging happening, deals being broken and Republicans being punked.”

Scott and Marisa talk with two Democratic members of Congress: Sydney Kamlager-Dove from Los Angeles and Jared Huffman from Marin. They discuss the prospect for a budget deal, Elon Musk’s influence and why Republicans defied President-elect Donald Trump last night.

Los Angeles Democratic Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove said that departments including Agriculture and the Small Business Administration would have to pause processing loans for small businesses, farmers and others if there’s a shutdown.

Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove of Los Angeles says she has a lot to be proud of as she wraps her first term in office. “I've accomplished a lot as a freshman. I started the Global Migration Caucus with a number of other colleagues. I am a Brazil caucus. I co-chair that I got a bill passed into law. I got a constituent released from a Venezuelan prison,” Kamlager-Dove said in an interview with Spectrum News.

Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) on Dec. 6 introduced a resolution to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles and the creation of the LA84 Foundation.