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Jared Huffman

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Jared William Huffman is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Huffman has focused on issues such as environmental protection, healthcare, and education during his tenure in Congress. He has been an advocate for science-based policy and has emphasized the importance of government support for scientific research and public safety initiatives.

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  1. Dennis Kirk is a fake and fraudulent watchdog.5 sources2026commondreams.org
  2. Trump is running the most corrupt presidency in American history, and he's working overtime to make sure no one is left to hold him accountable.5 sources2026commondreams.org
  3. Dennis Kirk is a fake and fraudulent watchdog," said Huffman. "Everyone should have their eyes wide open. Each and every thing this political puppet does will be in service of Donald Trump.2 sources2026commondreams.org
  4. Trump is running the most corrupt presidency in American history, and he's working overtime to make sure no one is left to hold him accountable," said Huffman. "He fired the real watchdogs, tried to gut their budgets, and now he's stuffing his own political operatives into the offices built to investigate his administration’s wrongdoing.2 sources2026commondreams.org
Aug 30, 2026

I give her huge credit for standing up to Trump at a time when almost no other Republicans would do it. That courage was very real, but she also did the country a huge disservice with her Christian privilege.

theguardian.com
Aug 30, 2026

We need to reckon with our Christian privilege problem, our Bible-sized blind spot when it comes to just speaking without fear or favour about this movement that poses as Christian.

theguardian.com
Aug 30, 2026

I truly believed January 6 would be the wake-up call our country needed to confront this movement to understand it and to hold it to account.

theguardian.com
Aug 29, 2026

I will fight this, both for Yosemite and for every treasured park that would be up for grabs if this domino falls.

theguardian.com
Aug 28, 2026

Our parks belong to all of us. These places should be protected for every generation, not sold off to Trump’s ultra-wealthy friends to profit off of.

theguardian.com
Aug 26, 2026

It’s a huge challenge I face in getting my colleagues in Congress to be interested in protecting church-state separation against this movement.

thebulwark.com
Aug 26, 2026

They looked past the religious elements of the insurrection and the country kind of went back to sleep.

thebulwark.com
Aug 13, 2026

When it comes to Trump, everything must be bigger, shinier, and all about him—including the White House. He's turning a place that belongs to the American people into his very own DC Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayers' dime.

commondreams.org
Aug 13, 2026

He's turning a place that belongs to the American people into his very own DC Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayers' dime.

commondreams.org
Aug 6, 2026

Trump is running the most corrupt presidency in American history, and he's working overtime to make sure no one is left to hold him accountable," said Huffman. "He fired the real watchdogs, tried to gut their budgets, and now he's stuffing…

commondreams.org
Aug 6, 2026

Dennis Kirk is a fake and fraudulent watchdog," said Huffman. "Everyone should have their eyes wide open. Each and every thing this political puppet does will be in service of Donald Trump.

commondreams.org
Aug 6, 2026

Trump is running the most corrupt presidency in American history, and he's working overtime to make sure no one is left to hold him accountable.

commondreams.org
Jul 2, 2026

I can’t, in my time here in Congress, remember anything even remotely like this: watching this trusted, venerable charity organisation, the National Parks Foundation, literally be hijacked for a craven political agenda that tries to steal…

theguardian.com
Jul 2, 2026

It’s a fantasy that airbrushes out the more complicated parts of our history – slavery, the Native American genocide, the actual secular ideals on which our government was founded. It wasn’t the opening of the clouds and some revealed…

theguardian.com
Jul 2, 2026

We put it all together to really tell the story … of how Donald Trump hijacked what should have been a unifying national celebration and repurposed it for his own interests.

npr.org
Jul 2, 2026

We may not be able to undo the damage they've done to us and the national celebration, but we can do something very patriotic by reminding everyone that our government belongs to all of us, not to Donald Trump.

npr.org
Jul 2, 2026

The one thing we can do is make sure the American people know what they’re doing in our name and with our tax dollars.

theguardian.com
Jul 2, 2026

I would hope that Freedom 250, if they claim that … there's nothing to see here, open up your books.

npr.org
Jul 2, 2026

Once you siphon off the funds and supplant the real bipartisan commission with this new entity and you declare it the main platform for our nation's celebration, and you award all these shady contracts to your friends, you can do anything…

npr.org
Apr 23, 2026

in the spirit of geothermal energy, we are sure hearing a lot of hot air from the other side with this fantastical narrative that Republicans, I guess, are now lowering costs and saving healthcare. The American people can decide whether…

govinfo.gov
Mar 18, 2026

Mr. Speaker, I have a couple of points. First of all, Federal wildlife managers under current law already have to follow the best available science. If they were to issue lead ammunition regulations randomly, arbitrarily, in a way that…

govinfo.gov
Mar 18, 2026

Mr. Speaker, we are on day 19 of Trump's illegal war of choice with Iran. So far, 13 American servicemembers are dead, and 200 more are wounded. Gas prices have surged 80 cents a gallon just in the last 3 weeks. Grocery bills are climbing…

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Feb 11, 2026

Mr. Speaker, it is a very selective concern about national security, apparently, because right now, every one of these landings has a publicly available map. The whole world knows where everything is. If my friends were concerned about the…

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