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Washington, DC – Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) announced today that the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport was awarded $10,990,000 through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden.
The US will not default on its debt but the Biden administration might be forced to take unilateral action to head off a crisis, Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, offering several possible executive maneuvers.
"The question is whether it's going to come to unilateral action by the executive branch," Khanna said during a meeting with Bloomberg News reporters and editors on Monday.
The 118th Congress has officially begun with a slim Republican majority in the House and a larger Democratic majority in the Senate. The red wave predicted by pundits in the midterm elections never materialized. Instead, House Republicans regained control with just a four-seat margin.
With so little wiggle room, collaboration between our two parties will be necessary if we are going to accomplish meaningful work for the American people.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California said Tuesday that House Republicans are threatening to "hijack the entire U.S. economy" and "subject it to collapse" in pursuit of cuts to Social Security and other right-wing policy goals, a warning that came as the Treasury Department prepared to take emergency measures to prevent the U.S. from breaching the debt ceiling.
A friendship between Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna and Assemblywoman Selena Torres turned into a resolution introduced in Congress on Tuesday to urge President Joe Biden to acknowledge the United States' role in El Salvador's 12-year civil war that killed an estimated 75,000 people.
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) and Shri Thanedar (MI-13) today celebrated the largest representation of Indian American Members of Congress in U.S. history.
Washington, DC – Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) today introduced a resolution that calls on the U.S. to acknowledge its complicity in El Salvador's brutal civil war and urges the Biden Administration to support strengthening human rights protections and humanitarian assistance in the country. The resolution was introduced ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chapultepec Peace Accords on January 16th marking a formal end to the conflict.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said ahead of President Biden's first visit to the southern border that Congress must act on legislation to strengthen border enforcement and bolster the country's asylum processing infrastructure.
NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, who argues that "a new economic patriotism" can make the U.S. a manufacturing powerhouse once again.
ANDREW LIMBONG, HOST:
Progressives are taking aim at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg over the Southwest airlines holiday travel fiasco that continues to cause mass delays and cancellations across the country, urging further scrutiny of the department's practices.