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Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) voted against the Republican budget that hands another $70 billion to ICE and Border Patrol, with no guardrails, oversight, or accountability.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) voted against House Republicans’ partisan agriculture funding bill that raises costs for farmers, slashes WIC nutrition assistance for women and children, and includes a controversial “license to discriminate” against LGBTQ+ Americans.
A United States court of appeals has ruled that a policy under President Donald Trump to expel transgender troops from the military was a violation of the Constitution.
But Monday’s decision was a split one among the three-judge panel of the US appeals court for the District of Columbia.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) issued the following statement after the House passed a funding bill to ensure TSA agents, FEMA personnel, and members of the Coast Guard are paid, while rejecting Republican demands to hand ICE another blank check as part of any funding deal.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) joined Rep. Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) and a group of their Democratic colleagues to file articles of impeachment against U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
US President Donald Trump’s whiplash-inducing announcement late Tuesday of a two-week ceasefire with Iran did nothing to diminish calls for his removal from office, with Democratic lawmakers arguing that the president’s genocidal threat earlier in the day—and his decision to launch the illegal war in the first place—cannot be walked back.