U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) released the following statement in response to President Trump's primetime address regarding election integrity. “The President is concerned about election integrity, yet his administration has been dismantling the actual defenses that keep our elections secure. He gutted the election security team, defunded the Election Infrastructure-ISAC, and harassed almost 1,000 employees into leaving CISA, the agency responsible for defending our voting systems agai… Continue Reading
— Today, U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) released the following statement after voting ‘no’ on H.R. 8595, the FY27 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, which cuts diplomatic and humanitarian tools America relies on to maintain soft power. Correa also voted ‘no' on the Massie Amendment to H.R. 8595. "The U.S. should work to maintain and strengthen our global influence, particularly through soft power; this bill does the opposite. It walks awa… Continue Reading
ORANGE, CA — Today, Representative Lou Correa (D-CA) presented a check for $1,031,000 in federal funding to the City of Orange to establish a Real Time Crime Center. Funding will be used to purchase updated technology that will allow for real-time intelligence gathering, predictive crime analytics, and enhanced deployment strategies. The center will equip the Orange Police Department with real-time information so they may respond to calls more efficiently, with more operational intelligence, and… 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