Alex Padilla

"Undermining them isn’t just wrong—it’s a direct threat to millions of students and to our nation’s future," said Senator Padilla.

So, therefore, this amendment would give them the specific funding that they claim they need. And I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.

We deserve an Attorney General who will put the Constitution above political retribution. Trump’s former personal lawyer will never be fit to be the American people’s lawyer.

As Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche has shown he is more loyal to Donald Trump than to federal law – from supporting his ‘anti-weaponization’ slush fund, to shielding the President and his family from tax audits, to perpetuating the…

We write to express our strong opposition to the Trump Administration’s continued efforts to undermine the rights of English learners, including through the formal dissolution of the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) at the…

What we should be doing, colleagues, is discussing how to help American families better afford their groceries and better afford to put gas in their cars so they can get to work.

This Administration’s immigration enforcement efforts have clearly not just been extreme and cruel; they’ve been unlawful and indefensible.

As millions of Americans exercised their right to vote yesterday, Donald Trump and his MAGA allies were working overtime — not to make life better for families who are struggling to make ends meet, but scheming to silence the voices of…

California has several projects that were awarded funding in previous fiscal years that have not been able to move forward, either because obligations have stalled or because other final actions remain pending.

The end result of the proposals before us continue to be personal gain for the president and those around him, plain and simple.

More than a billion dollars in charging projects are also shovel-ready, with funding awarded and waiting to be put to work.

The proposals and actions of the Republican majority and the White House isn’t trying to tackle the cost of health care. They’re not trying to tackle the cost of housing.

With 179 Hispanic-Serving Institutions in California alone, we’ve seen firsthand how these schools expand opportunity, strengthen our workforce, and power our economy.

Now these tax dollars are set to go to whomever President Trump pleases; there are no limitations on individuals affiliated with the President receiving payments from the Fund.

This settlement agreement and the fund it creates demand accountability.

It is deeply disturbing for the Secretary of Commerce to attempt to illegally interfere with lawful mail ballots in states that do not cooperate with President Trump’s unconstitutional attempt to 'take over the voting.'

We demand that the Department follow the law and cease any effort to 'coordinate' or 'implement' this EO.

Everyone should see through this charade — President Trump believes he is entitled to vote by mail, but wants to make it harder for other eligible American voters to vote by mail in the midterm elections.

No parent should have to fear what may happen when they drop their child off at school, when they go to work, or whether they will make it home at the end of the day.

The level of the cruelty we’ve seen from the Trump Administration is sickening – there must be a better way.

I will continue to fight for a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients and other law-abiding, long-term residents of the United States.

It is completely unacceptable for the Postal Service to take orders from President Trump to severely limit vote by mail.

The House-passed version is not the answer — it does not reverse the devastating SNAP cuts made by Trump’s Anything But Beautiful Bill.

Diversity is our strength and we thrive as a country when we address inequities in our schools.

The American people deserve to know the true costs of this conflict, and they deserve transparency and honesty when their government commits the nation to war.