Representative Laura Friedman

California contributes more to the federal government than it gets back. When it comes to getting the fire mitigation resources we need, this kind of partisan attack on California can have life or death consequences.

My colleagues and I are demanding that the Trump administration immediately release the millions they’ve withheld from California – an unconscionable action they’ve taken without any explanation. We’re not letting Trump play partisan games with American lives.

On this day in 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to tell more than 250,000 enslaved Black people that they had been emancipated.

Juneteenth isn't just a day to honor their lives and the end of slavery. It's a reminder that a just and moral society strives to always advance civil rights, voting rights, and to tell the actual truth of our history.