Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar took office in 2019 as the U.S. Representative for Texas’ 16th Congressional District in El Paso. She was previously a County Commissioner and a County Judge.
Veronica Escobar
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"We began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe…
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"We saw the increases (of unaccompanied minors at the southern U.S. border) dating back almost a year."
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Says Texas “either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.”
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“House Democrats have passed more than 275 bipartisan bills this Congress."
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“The president has exploded the debt by more than $3 trillion — all to give billion-dollar tax cuts to the wealthiest few.”
Says El Paso is the "safest city of our size in the nation."