Dear Friends,

Americans already pressured by skyrocketing costs from Trump’s tariffs are bracing for the impact of the Republicans’ Big Ugly Budget which will make low-income people poorer and sicker while making the ultra-rich even richer – it’s sinful.

Americans know Republicans ripped away health care to fund billionaire tax breaks. Republicans know they will lose the Midterm elections, so they decided to cheat — to change Texas' voting rules in the middle of the game. Rather than take care of flood victims and other constituents in need and address how to provide lifesaving health care and food for millions of Texans who will lose both, Texas Republicans have chosen to do the direct bidding of Donald Trump by redrawing their Congressional maps with a redlining mid-decade gerrymander that violates the Voting Rights Act by erasing representation for minority communities.

Dear Friends,

This week, House Democrats celebrated Honor Our Veterans Day of Action on Purple Heart Day — a time to honor those who have been wounded in the line of duty. It was also an opportunity to recognize all of our veterans for their service and to reaffirm our commitment to caring for those who have sacrificed for us. I began the week with my California colleague, Congressman Mike Thompson, CA-04, a decorated Purple Heart veteran of the Vietnam war who has been leading the way in the Congress for restoration of Trump‘s cruel budget that jeopardizes cuts to veterans’ cancer care in our PACT Act, to veterans suicide prevention in the COMPACT Act and to Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. 

On Thursday, I visited the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Unfortunately, recent changes made by Republicans to Medicaid and the SNAP program have made it more difficult for veterans to receive the assistance they also need and deserve.

Democrats are dedicated to providing our veterans with the highest quality care. We value the employees of the Veterans Administration and acknowledge their right to organize. Our mission will always be to leave no veteran behind. We will continue to push back against the harm that has been inflicted on veterans by the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans.

Dear Friends,

This week, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of Medicaid. As you may know, Democrats delivered Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act despite Republican opposition — and Republicans have never stopped undermining these life-saving initiatives for our families, including Trump's Big Ugly Budget. So going into this past week, we were part of a sacred vigil to kick off Save Medicaid Summer with the Caring Across Generations coalition. Moms, dads, children with disabilities, patient advocates, health care workers, my daughter and I took turns sharing stories from across the country.

Friends, we must “Own August” by keeping the pressure on Republicans in Congress who chose to strip Medicaid funding, food and other vital services from millions of Americans on Trump’s orders — in order to give massive tax breaks to his ultra rich MAGA donors. They need to know that the American people will never get over this act of cruelty and depravity and will not be distracted by the Republicans’ attempts to evade and deflect responsibility for the harm they willingly caused.

Dear Friends,

MAGA Republicans passed their Big Ugly Bill and signed it into law on the 4^th of July in a display of shameful pride and hubris that is completely out of step with the American people’s needs. Although they acted proud to rip away health care and food assistance from up to 20 million Americans in their command performance for Trump in front of the cameras, they know what they did was wrong – and sinful. Our work to defend lifesaving health care and vital assistance for the most vulnerable Americans continues.

Thank you, Volunteers in Politics, for your dedication and hard work over the past 6 months of effective mobilization and phone banking. Because of you, Republicans are on record – claiming they would not act to cut Medicaid and other aspects of our health care only to do the exact opposite on Trump’s orders. By their cruel and monstrous betrayal of the American people, Republicans have set the stage for their electoral reckoning and for Democrats to take back the House in 2026 in a Big Beautiful Blowback for their actions.

Sadly, every single House Republican from California voted to strip health care and food assistance from millions of Americans including their own constituents — putting families in crisis to finance billionaire tax breaks. Every. Single. One. So we are continuing to make sure that their constituents know.

Dear Friends,

Celebrating the Fourth of July together, we honor our Declaration of Independence as a cornerstone document of our nation’s founding of our government of the people, by the people and For The People. Our Founders separated from a king 249 years ago today, yet we find ourselves with a President who fancies himself a king, enabled by an extremist judiciary and cowardly Republican legislators eager to surrender their own constitutional duty and authority to a bully with an extremist agenda and authoritarian schemes.

Sadly, Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill that every House Democrat rejected and that House Republicans passed yesterday will rip away health care and food from 20 million Americans and result in hospital and nursing home closures in every state. That Republicans insist on referring to their monstrous legislation as “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is proof that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder and that today’s Republican Party has a warped and blurred vision of what America is about. Is it beautiful to take food out of the mouths of hungry children and seniors? Is it beautiful to cut off 17 million Americans from their health care? Is it beautiful to exact this cruelty and pain on America’s working families to give massive tax handouts to billionaires and corporations already making record profits? No. This legislation is obscene. It’s sinful. It’s deadly.

Dear Friends,

Thank you to our Volunteers in Politics – our amazing grassroots VIPs who have been phone banking with us for months now to Save Our Health Care! I am so grateful for you.

Every day of every month I am proud to represent San Francisco. It is a special privilege to do so during Pride Month as I bring our San Francisco values of love, respect, unity, and community with me everywhere I go.

We celebrate and cherish the beauty, bravery and brilliance of our LGBTQ+ community. Pride Month is a powerful reminder that love triumphs over hate – and that our march for justice, dignity and equality continues on. And this Pride month is a celebration of our values, as they are under attack and attempted erasure by the Trump Administration.

Dear Friends,

Here they go again. Republicans are fighting to make billionaires even richer by making hardworking Americans sicker and poorer as Democrats are fighting for working families,. During the President’s disastrous first term, the only major Republican bill that the Republicans passed and he signed into law was a GOP Tax Scam that gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1% and added more than $2 trillion to the national debt.

The Republicans’ Reverse Robin Hood Scam making its way through the Congress now would take from those with the least and give it to those who already have the most. Just yesterday, House Republicans voted to cut $700 billion from Medicaid, $500 billion from Medicare, along with $300 billion from SNAP – literally taking food out of the mouths of babies. The impacts of Trump and Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill will hurt America’s children, seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, working families and rural communities that will see many of their hospitals close. And the harm from the Republicans’ monstrous budget will land squarely on the backs of our nation’s most vulnerable – or what Republicans are calling “waste, fraud and abuse.”

Dear Friends,

Thursday night, I had the honor of discussing Pope Leo XIV while saluting the work ethic, dedication and courage of San Francisco union workers who day in and day out are the heartbeat of our City. I was pleased to receive my jacket, becoming an honorary delegate of the San Francisco Labor Council.  Along with so many in America and across the globe, I am overjoyed at the election of the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church. I am more excited that His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has already started leading the Church by signaling his commitment to peace, justice and service, in the tradition of his namesake, Pope Leo XIII who was a champion for workers and unions, and of our beloved Pope Francis.

As we continue our fight to Save Our Health Care, mindful of the millions of Americans who depend on Medicaid to live, may we find inspiration from and shared purpose with the election of our new Pope.

Dear Friends,

Today, I bring you greetings on my way to Rome to pay final respects to His Holiness Pope Francis, a beacon of hope and love for all people of faith. He rekindled the faith of Catholics worldwide, with a triumphant message of peace that has inspired a generation.

Pope Francis personified our sacred responsibility in the Gospel of Matthew to honor the spark of divinity in the least of our brethren — championing the poor, the worker, the refugee and the immigrant. His Holiness reminded us of our inescapable duty to those struggling to escape poverty and persecution and called on all of us to be good stewards of God’s Creation. I am honored to attend his service on behalf of my constituents from the City of St Francis — the Saint from whom His Holiness drew his papal name and inspiration.

As we celebrate Passover and Easter Week — sacred celebrations of renewal, community and freedom — we are reminded of the need to take care of one another and to live out our morals in our words and in our actions. Right now, there is no starker contrast to our shared Democratic values than what is happening at the hands of the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.

In partnership with San Francisco community leaders and advocates, we organized a public forum earlier this week to raise awareness about how the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE are putting Social Security benefits at risk. Republicans say, “We’re not touching benefits” but they are closing offices and shutting down the phones. These moves threaten whether new beneficiaries will be able to access their benefits and whether continuing beneficiaries will receive THEIR OWN MONEY.

Dear Friends,

Last weekend, we saw the power of the grassroots on full display as millions gathered peacefully from coast to coast — from Scranton to San Francisco – demanding that Republicans keep their HANDS OFF OUR SAFETY NET — Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, veterans care and other vital service for millions of Americans.  

Thank you for speaking out, sharing stories and showing up for our Democratic values.

This week, we pushed back forcefully against Trump’s reckless tariffs that were tanking our economy in a self-inflicted disaster that penalizes hardworking American families — driving prices sky high, draining retirement savings and unnecessarily pushing us to the brink of recession.

Friends,

Thank you to our Volunteers in Politics for the tremendous victory for Judge Susan Crawford, for Wisconsin and for our country on Tuesday. The hard work of volunteers making calls, sending texts, and communicating with voters made all the difference. You proved, once again, that the power of people organized around our values can overcome even the deep pockets of the richest man on Earth. The millions of dollars spent by Republicans and Trump Co-President Elon Musk proved no match for the voter turnout generated by volunteers to secure this resounding victory. 

When we vote, we win. When grassroots VIPs turn out the vote, we win. When we work to mobilize voters with Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler — the best organizer in the country — Judge Susan Crawford wins. When Judge Susan Crawford wins, Wisconsin and America win.