• On July 3, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) released a statement on the passage of the Republican reconciliation bill. Carbajal voted against the bill, while opposing its unprecedented cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and food assistance, according to Carbajal’s office. In his statement, Carbajal said the bill “puts billionaires first and working families last,” and “betrays millions of children, seniors, and veterans who will lose their health care and food assistance.” In California’s 24th Congressional District, 119,000 residents benefit from food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The bill makes massive cuts to SNAP, which helps more than 42 million Americans afford groceries and also slashes $900 billion from Medicaid, according to Carbajal’s office. “It’s a betrayal of rural communities who will face unprecedented funding cuts to their hospitals and nursing homes. Donald Trump and congressional Republicans promised to lower the cost of living and make life easier, but this bill will do the exact opposite,” Carbajal stated. “Their agenda is shameful, and I’ll continue to fight back.”
•U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla (D-California), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, and Adam Schiff (D-California) joined 68 Democratic lawmakers in urging President Donald Trump to rescind his discriminatory travel ban with a letter on July 3. The letter demands transparency into Trump’s decision-making process and answers about how the travel ban will impact communities across the United States. Addressed to Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, the joint letter outlined the “disastrous consequences” that Trump’s travel ban will have on families and the American economy. “The effects of President Trump’s discriminatory travel ban will be devastating. In the last year alone, over 126,000 visas have been issued to nationals from just the 12 countries on the fully restricted list,” the letter states. “These are individuals who are looking to come to the United States to reunite with family, support our economy, or otherwise enrich our country in innumerable ways.” Trump’s ban imposes full restrictions on entry into the United States from nationals of Afghanistan, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, as well as partial restrictions on entry from nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. Trump is also reportedly considering imposing travel restrictions on an additional 36 countries, according to Padilla’s office. “This travel ban will harm our economy by depriving the United States of workers in key fields experiencing labor shortages like medicine and agriculture and further devastating our domestic tourism industry which is already expected to decline by $12.5 billion in 2025,” the letter states. U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware) and U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) spearheaded the letter.
• State Sen. Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) recently commented on the passage of the 2025-2026 California state budget with a June 27 statement. “Our state budget has been severely impacted by federal policies that have further affected an already difficult budget. Unfortunately that means we have made incredibly hard decisions in order to address affordability, defend core programs, and reject cuts to our institutions that support all Californians,” Limón stated. “This budget maintains funding to our higher education institutions, housing programs, critical reproductive health care services, and child care system, while expanding funding to support a year-round Cal Fire fighting force. While this budget gets us to the next step in the process, the work must continue to safeguard California’s values.”
This article appears in Jul 10-20, 2025.
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