Rep. Nancy Mace censure against Rep. Robert Garcia fails to move forward
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Today, after Congress closed its weeklong work session, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) released the following statement after Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace failed to bring a censure to the floor for his push-back on Elon Musk.
No Republicans joined her effort or cosponsored her resolution and she chose not to force a vote on the floor.
“After making numerous threats to try to censure me for criticizing Elon Musk, it’s clear the Congresswoman could not find enough Republican colleagues to support her, forcing her to back down from bringing a censure vote to the floor. We refuse to be silenced, and will continue to speak out against Trump and Musk, and their attacks on our federal agencies.”
Congressman Garcia has always fought back against efforts to damage our federal agencies and our democracy. At the first DOGE Subcommittee hearing in February, Congressman Garcia called out Elon Musk for his billions of dollars in conflicts of interest with the federal government and for leading a power grab against our democracy. A day later, Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC-01) introduced a resolution to censure Congressman Garcia for using a figure of speech and speaking out against Musk’s blatant attempts to take over our democracy. After continuing to push back on Musk for his attempts to gut the social safety net to enrich himself and his billionaire friends, Washington D.C.'s Acting U.S. Attorney, a Trump appointee and ally, sent a threatening letter to Congressman Garcia as part of an effort to silence individuals willing to oppose Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dangerous overreach. Congressman Garcia will continue to stand up to prevent billionaire oligarchs from overthrowing our democracy.