U.S. House · California's 13th Congressional District

• YesWar Powers Resolution directing removal of forces from Iran hostilities · H. Con. Res. 86 · Passed 215–208 · 2026-06-03 roll call ↗The resolution directs the President to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran that Congress has not authorized, invoking the War Powers Resolution. It passed the House with support from Democrats and a number of Republicans.
• YesResolution disapproving tariffs on Canada · H.J. Res. 72 · Passed 219–211 · 2026-02-11 roll call ↗The resolution terminates the national emergency the President declared in February 2025 to justify a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada, ending that tariff if it becomes law. It passed with a bipartisan majority, including several Republicans who broke with the administration on trade policy.
• NoConsolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 — full-year government funding · H.R. 7148 · Passed 217–214 · 2026-02-03 roll call ↗The bill provides full-year discretionary appropriations for federal agencies for the remainder of fiscal year 2026, replacing the stopgap funding enacted after the fall 2025 shutdown. It sets spending levels across defense and non-defense programs through September 2026.
• YesBreaking the Gridlock Act — ACA subsidy extension · H.R. 1834 · Passed 230–196 · 2026-01-08 roll call ↗The bill extends for additional years the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that were expanded in 2021 and had lapsed at the end of 2025, lowering health-insurance premiums for people who buy coverage on ACA marketplaces. It passed with support from nearly all Democrats and a small group of Republicans.
• YesWar Powers Resolution on Venezuela · H. Con. Res. 64 · Failed 211–213 · 2025-12-17 roll call ↗The resolution would have directed the President to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities in or against Venezuela that Congress had not authorized. It failed after U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-trafficking vessels off Venezuela had raised questions in Congress about the administration's legal authority for military action in the region.
• YesNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 — final passage · S. 1071 · Passed 312–112 · 2025-12-10 roll call ↗The fiscal year 2026 NDAA authorizes roughly $900 billion in defense spending, including a pay raise for service members and funding for shipbuilding, munitions, and missile-defense programs. It also sets policy on military personnel, procurement, and other Defense Department programs for the year.
• YesEpstein Files Transparency Act · H.R. 4405 · Passed 427–1 · 2025-11-18 roll call ↗The bill directs the Department of Justice to publicly release its investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, while allowing redactions to protect victim identities, ongoing investigations, and law enforcement techniques. It passed with near-unanimous support.
• YesContinuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026 — shutdown-ending vote · H.R. 5371 · Passed 222–209 · 2025-11-12 roll call ↗The bill reopened the federal government after a 43-day shutdown by funding most agencies through January 30, 2026, and providing full-year funding for a smaller group of agencies through September 2026. It also reversed shutdown-related federal layoffs and funded SNAP benefits retroactively.
• YesCLARITY Act — digital asset market structure · H.R. 3633 · Passed 294–134 · 2025-07-17 roll call ↗The CLARITY Act creates a regulatory framework dividing oversight of digital assets between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It sets registration and disclosure requirements for cryptocurrency exchanges and other digital-asset intermediaries.
• YesGENIUS Act — stablecoin regulation · S. 1582 · Passed 308–122 · 2025-07-17 roll call ↗The GENIUS Act creates a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, requiring issuers to hold reserves backing their tokens on a one-to-one basis and to comply with new disclosure and licensing rules. It was the first major piece of cryptocurrency legislation enacted into federal law.
• NoOne Big Beautiful Bill Act — final passage · H.R. 1 · Passed 218–214 · 2025-07-03 roll call ↗H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, extends and expands the 2017 tax cuts, adds new deductions for tips, overtime pay, and seniors, and raises the cap on state and local tax deductions. It increases border security and defense spending while cutting projected Medicaid and SNAP spending and adding new work requirements; President Trump signed it into law on July 4, 2025.
• NoRescissions Act of 2025 · H.R. 4 · Passed 214–212 · 2025-06-12 roll call ↗The Rescissions Act canceled about $9 billion in previously approved federal spending, mostly for foreign aid programs and for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It was the first rescissions package Congress had approved in decades.
• NoOne Big Beautiful Bill Act — House passage · H.R. 1 · Passed 215–214 · 2025-05-22 roll call ↗H.R. 1 extends and modifies the 2017 individual and business tax cuts, creates new deductions for tips and overtime pay, and increases spending on border security and defense. It also reduces projected spending on Medicaid and food-assistance programs and adds new work requirements for some recipients.
• NoSAVE Act — proof-of-citizenship voter registration · H.R. 22 · Passed 220–208 · 2025-04-10 roll call ↗The SAVE Act would require individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections. It also directs states to establish procedures to remove noncitizens identified on voter rolls.
• NoFull-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 · H.R. 1968 · Passed 217–213 · 2025-03-11 roll call ↗The bill funded the federal government through the remainder of fiscal year 2025, largely at prior-year spending levels, averting a shutdown ahead of a March 14 deadline. It also extended several expiring health and other program authorizations.
• YesLaken Riley Act — final passage · S. 5 · Passed 263–156 · 2025-01-22 roll call ↗The Laken Riley Act requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain undocumented immigrants who are arrested, charged, or convicted for theft, burglary, or certain violent crimes. It also allows state attorneys general to sue the federal government over certain immigration enforcement decisions.

• actionAssigned to the House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets and Rural Development, in the 119th Congress (2025-2026).[2]
• voteOne of fourteen Democrats to help pass the Farm Bill in the House Agriculture Committee, and one of two Democrats to move the SPEED Act permitting bill out of the House Natural Resources Committee.[3]
• billIntroduced the End the California Water Crisis Package and the Central Valley Water Solution Act, bills that would authorize 21 additional water storage projects in California.[3]
• actionDuring his decade in the California State Assembly, secured $220 million to build a medical education building at UC Merced and $2 million for the Stanislaus County Office of Education to create the VOLT Institute job-training program in Modesto.[3]

• ✓SupportsExpand public health coverageFrom recorded votes

  Voted no on One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 2025-05-22; 2025-07-03), which reduced federal Medicaid spending and added Medicaid work requirements. Voted yes on Breaking the Gridlock Act (H.R. 1834, 2026-01-08).[7][8][9][10]

  What they say: Introduced the Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act of 2025 to reverse Medicaid cuts in the 2025 reconciliation law and permanently extend ACA enhanced premium tax credits.[3]

• ✕OpposesBroad tariffs on imported goodsFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on Resolution disapproving tariffs on Canada (H.J. Res. 72, 2026-02-11).[11]

  What they say: Cosponsored the Stopping a Rogue President on Trade Act, which would limit the president's ability to unilaterally impose tariffs without congressional approval, and introduced the Stop Raising Prices on Food Act to protect farmers from tariff-related cost increases.[3]

• ~MixedExpand immigration enforcement and deportationsFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on Laken Riley Act (S. 5, 2025-01-22). Voted no on One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 2025-05-22; 2025-07-03), which funded expanded immigration enforcement, detention and border operations.[6][7][8][9]

  What they say: Says the border must be secured and federal agencies held to clear standards, while also cosponsoring the American Dream and Promise Act of 2025 to provide a citizenship pathway for Dreamers and voting against a DHS appropriations bill he said gave ICE and CBP a blank check without accountability reforms.[3]

• ✓SupportsIncrease police funding and staffing

  Says he strongly supports law enforcement at all levels and has opposed California ballot measures he says jeopardized public safety, including reduced sentencing (Prop 47) and early release (Prop 57).[3]

• ~MixedContinue U.S. military aid to Israel

  Voted for a War Powers Resolution aimed at ending U.S. military activity in Iran absent a declaration of war, saying Congress must approve extended conflicts, while also saying the Iranian regime has funded terrorist organizations that threaten U.S. allies.[3]

• ✓SupportsFaster transition away from fossil fuelsFrom recorded votes

  Voted no on One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 2025-05-22; 2025-07-03), which phased out Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy tax credits.[7][8][9]

• ✓SupportsRaise taxes on high earners or corporationsFrom recorded votes

  Voted no on One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 2025-05-22; 2025-07-03), which made the 2017 individual tax rates, including the 37% top rate, permanent.[7][8][9]

• Says he is focused on lowering the costs of food, housing, health care, and utilities for Central Valley families, citing bills he introduced to reverse Medicaid cuts and extend ACA premium tax credits.[3]
• Says water access is the number one issue he hears about in the district, and cites bills he introduced to expand water storage capacity and ease permitting for water infrastructure projects.[3]
• In a statement, said the Valley needs results rather than partisan politics and that he will work with either party to lower costs and strengthen farms and small businesses.[2]

• Born in Merced, California, in 1977; earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.[2]
• Worked as a legislative aide with the California State Legislature and as an assistant lecturer with the University of California at Merced before his election to the Assembly.[2]
• Member of the California State Assembly from 2012 to 2022.[2]

Raised $4.2M · spent $2.3M · $2.1M cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗

• actionServed as mayor of Stockton, California, from 2021 to 2024.[2]
• actionRan for California's 9th Congressional District in 2024, losing to incumbent Josh Harder 51.8%-48.2%.[2]

• ✓SupportsExpand immigration enforcement and deportations

  Campaign site says he will fight to secure the border, enforce immigration laws, and restore law and order, citing his time in the Marine Corps.[5]

• ✓SupportsIncrease police funding and staffing

  Campaign site says that as mayor he "backed the blue," delivering an 18% pay raise and $42 million budget increase for police, and that in Congress he will fight what he calls soft-on-crime policies like early release and reduced sentences for repeat offenders.[5]

• ✕OpposesRaise taxes on high earners or corporations

  Campaign site says he will work to cut what he calls wasteful government spending and lower taxes, citing his record balancing Stockton's budget without raising taxes as mayor.[5]

• Campaign website said Washington's policies and partisanship are making life harder for the Valley and that leaders have done little to address the cost of groceries, gas, and housing.[2]
• Says that as mayor he balanced budgets without raising taxes and delivered an 18% pay raise and $42 million budget increase for police.[5]
• Supports the president's AI Action Plan, saying it prioritizes American innovation, national security, and domestic AI infrastructure.[5]

• Born in Stockton, California; served in the U.S. Marine Corps.[4]
• Earned an associate degree in business, a bachelor's degree in business management, and a master's degree in executive leadership.[4]
• Career experience includes working as a district manager with a private security company; served as mayor of Stockton from 2021 to 2024.[4][2]

Raised $2.2M · spent $1.4M · $838K cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗