Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) released the following statement after voting against House Republicans’ budget bill:
“I voted hell no on the Republican Rip-Off budget because I refuse to be complicit in Donald Trump and House Republicans' attempts to steal from my constituents. Hell no to raising health care premiums by $2,020 a year; hell no on ripping food assistance away from 40 million Americans; and hell no on giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the Billionaire Boys Club.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On December 17, 2024, the United Nations proclaimed a Second International Decade for People of African Descent 2025-2034. This Second International Decade confronts the legacies of enslavement and colonialism, delivers reparatory justice, and secures the full human rights and freedoms of people of African descent worldwide.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, and Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-04), Chair of the Subcommittee, issued the following joint statement on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, DC:
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) joined House Democrats in introducing the Taxpayer Data Protection Act in response to Elon Musk’s shameful invasion of Americans’ privacy. This legislation would prevent people who have conflicts of interest or lack a security clearance from accessing the Treasury Department’s highly sensitive payment system, which distributes nearly $6 trillion in federal funding annually, including Social Security and Medicare benefits.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, released the following statement on President Elon Musk and his puppet Donald Trump’s actions to dismantle USAID and gut the U.S. foreign assistance apparatus:
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37),Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, joined U.S. Representative Greg Stanton (AZ-04) and 41 House Democrats in a letter to President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the acting Secretary of Commerce, and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative calling on the Trump Administration to immediately rescind the executive orders levying 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
LOS ANGELES, CA—Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) held a press conference with local organizations to highlight the harmful effects of Donald Trump’s federal funding freeze on food access in Los Angeles, where one in four residents already struggle with food insecurity.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, released the following statement on Donald Trump's foreign assistance freeze:
"In his first week in office, Donald Trump took a hammer to our foreign policy institutions by ordering an abrupt 90-day pause on foreign assistance. This drastic move is a gross abandonment of our own interests, day-one gift to our competitors, and a devastating blow to the world’s most vulnerable populations.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congresswomen Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) and Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, issued the following statement after Donald Trump issued a day-one executive order dissolving the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement:
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Co-Chair of the Global Migration Caucus, released a statement on the extreme immigration executive orders that Trump signed during his first couple of days in office: