Santa Ana, CA — U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) released a report titled The Trump Cost-of-Living Crisis in CA-46: How the Administration Is Making Life More Unaffordable, detailing how President Trump's tariff taxes, his war with Iran, and his so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" are driving up costs and squeezing household budgets for families in CA-46 and nationwide. "Trump promised to lower costs on day one, and instead he's made life more expensive for working families in Orange County… Continue Reading
U.S. Representatives Lou Correa (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee, Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations & Accountability, sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin demanding the department immediately halt ICE’s plan to spend up to $20 million on gloves capable of delivering electric shocks. On Augu… Continue Reading
U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) released the following statement on his reintroduction of a resolution to honor August as Chicano Heritage Month. “As the son of Mexican immigrants and a Representative with a large Chicano constituency, I’m honored to represent and celebrate Mexican Americans who have contributed greatly to this country. For centuries, Chicanos have strengthened America in countless ways, and their stories deserve to be acknowledged and celebrated. “Years before Brown v.… Continue Reading
American veterans are traveling to a Mexican city where there have been so many homicides that the State Department advises they reconsider. Their reason: to take experimental psychedelic drugs the vets hope will treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses they incurred after combat. Southern California Rep. Lou Correa wants to make sure the treatments are safe and whether it makes sense to offer them in the U.S. Correa, a Democrat, recently traveled to the Tijuana clinic t… Continue Reading
Thousands have been killed in Gaza, with entire families wiped out. Israeli airstrikes have reduced Palestinian neighborhoods to expanses of rubble, while doctors treat screaming children in darkened hospitals with no anesthesia. Across the Middle East, fear has spread over the possible outbreak of a broader regional war. But in the bloody arithmetic of Hamas’s leaders, the carnage is not the regrettable outcome of a big miscalculation. Quite the opposite, they say: It is the necessary cost of … Continue Reading
Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.) credited President Joe Biden with making the right call by attending the Group of 20 (G20) summit in India over the weekend, saying the president’s actions send a key message about the U.S. role in the Indo-Pacific region. “President Biden did the right thing by showing up and showing that we are leaders in the world today, leaders for peace, leaders for democracy, leaders for freedom. And so I’m glad President Biden was there,” Mr. Correa said in an interview with NT… Continue Reading