Today, House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and a bipartisan group of senior House and Senate members wrote to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leaders to urge the delay of planned furloughs and contract cancellations for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Chairwoman Roybal-Allard and her congressional colleagues wrote to Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and USCIS Deputy Director for Policy Joseph Edlow to explain that US... Read more

Today, House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) announced the awarding of more than $23 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants to the California Department of Public Health to help address the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Public Health is receiving $13.1 million for contract testing services, as well as $10.4 million for alternative care sites and emergency medical care facility expenses statewide. As chairwoman of... Read more

Today, House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) announced the awarding of more than $2.4 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) grants to Los Angeles-area US&R teams. The City of Los Angeles’ US&R team will be receiving $1,180,631, and the Los Angeles County US&R team will be receiving $1,266,631. As chairwoman of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, Chairwoman Roybal-Allard oversees F... Read more

Today, Congresswomen Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), the founding Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Maternity Care and members of the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee, celebrated the inclusion of key Maternity Care Caucus priorities in HR 7617, the FY 2021 domestic appropriations bill which includes funding for the Department of Health and Human Services. The congresswomen successfully advocated for provisions in this bill to promote materna... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), the lead author of the Dream and Promise Act (HR 6) and an original co-author of the Dream Act, issued the following statement about the Trump Administration’s announcement on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program: “The Trump Administration is unlawfully refusing to comply with two court orders to accept new DACA applications. Instead, the Administration has announced it will reject all pending and future initial requ... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), the first Mexican-American congresswoman, issued the following statement today about the House of Representatives’ passage of H.R. 2420, a bill to create a Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino in Washington, DC: “The stories of Latinos are essential to the story of America – but our stories have too often been untold or overlooked. That is why, as the first Mexican-American congresswoman, I've been fighting to create a Smithsonian Museum of the A... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) issued the following statement about President Trump's memorandum attempting to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted for the purposes of congressional reapportionment after the 2020 Census: "Once again, President Trump is taking extraordinary steps to sabotage the Census and Congress for his own political gain. Let's be very clear: The Census requires EVERY resident of our nation to be counted, regardless of immigration status, and that p... Read more

Today, House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $1.5 million in funding to the City of Los Angeles to support Great Plates COVID-19 meal delivery. As chairwoman of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, Chairwoman Roybal-Allard oversees FEMA funding. “As our communities fight the COVID-19 pandemic, we must ensure that our vulnerable populations, including seniors, ... Read more

This morning, Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) delivered the following remarks (as prepared) at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Homeland Security bill (livestreaming at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpnsHf9xEI): I’d like to begin by joining my colleagues in recognizing Chairwoman Lowey for her nearly 32 years of service to our country. Her wisdom, passion, and commitment on behalf of her constituents and the A... Read more

Today, House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year 2021 Homeland Security bill on a vote of 30 to 22. The legislation provides annual funding for the components of the Department of Homeland Security. The bill provides $50.72 billion in discretionary funding, including $48.1 billion in nondefense discretionary funding, the same level as fiscal year 2020, and $2.8 billion in defense fu... Read more