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PASADENA, CA – Six months after the devastating Los Angeles fires, including the Eaton Fire, which claimed 18 lives, scorched over 14,000 acres, destroyed more than 9,500 structures including homes, businesses, churches, and nonprofit centers, and displaced 20,000 residents—Rep. Judy Chu released the following statement: 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the Big Ugly Bill, President Trump and Republicans’ budget reconciliation package, by a vote of 218-214. Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) voted no and released the following statement: 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Judy Chu (CA-28), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Lucy McBath (GA-06), and Don Bacon (NE-02) led a bipartisan letter to the Department of Education demanding answers following reports that the agency plans to reallocate $1 billion in federal mental health grant funding. This funding was originally approved by Congress through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which passed with broad bipartisan support to address the critical shortage of mental health professionals in schools.

Members blast President Trump’s travel ban: “We write to express our strong opposition to President Trump’s recent decision to issue a sweeping travel ban that will deny entry to thousands of individuals from 19 different countries.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, on the twelfth anniversary of the U.S. v. Windsor decision that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Reps. Judy Chu (CA-28) and Becca Balint (VT-AL) announced the introduction of H.R. 4163, the Promoting Respect for Individuals' Dignity and Equality (PRIDE) Act of 2025. The PRIDE Act includes the text of H.R.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court’s decision paves the way for even more authoritarianism from this administration. It greenlights Trump’s attacks on our constitutional rights by limiting the nationwide injunctions that so many courts successfully sued for to block his plainly unconstitutional executive order to end birthright citizenship. Today’s ruling importantly gives lower courts time to respond, and we will keep fighting.

Three years after Roe was overturned, House Democrats reintroduce bill to protect abortion rights across the U.S.

PASADENA, CA – On June 18th, a newly surfaced video captured alarming scenes at the intersection of Los Robles and Orange Avenue in Pasadena. In the footage, ICE agents appear to commit serious violations of the law, aiming weapons at innocent civilians, driving recklessly through residential streets, and failing to present warrants or identify themselves. These chaotic and dangerous tactics put entire communities at risk.