Had so much fun at the Serra Mesa Big Block Party! It was great to see so many folks out enjoying the music, local vendors, and the amazing car show.

I visited UCSD’s Supercomputer Center to learn more about how they’re using advanced computing and AI to tackle real-world challenges, including supporting wildfire response and advancing health care research. It’s critical that we harness AI to help people, not just a few tech companies.

I met with the Karen Organization of San Diego – which serves families of Burmese descent – and met kids in their summer camp! We also visited PANA's Global Marketplace, which supports refugee-owned businesses like Doh Doh Coffee, the first Karen-owned coffee shop in San Diego.

Gun violence has shattered so many communities across this country – including ours, in San Diego. I’m grateful to be working alongside folks like the Alliance to End Gun Violence to end this epidemic and protect future generations from this unnecessary trauma.

Last week, I helped pack backpacks with school supplies with Home Start, a local non-profit focused on helping kids grow up in safe and stable homes across San Diego County. Every kid deserves to have everything they need to thrive in school and beyond.

Proud to visit Stepping Stone, which specializes in LGBTQ+-affirming treatment for substance use disorder, mental health services, and transitional housing. When it was founded in 1976, most treatment programs turned away LGBTQ+ people or asked them to closet themselves.

It was great to meet with Arts Education Connection. Every kid (and everyone!) deserves access to the arts because it shapes how they learn, grow, and see the world.

I loved meeting with some of the students and leaders from First Gen Scholars–an amazing organization that’s breaking down financial barriers so first-gen students can go to college debt-free. Investing in the next generation starts with making higher education accessible to all.

I enjoyed the tour at AtmoSense and learning about their work to build cutting-edge gas-sensing technology to keep our air, workplaces, and communities safer.

Federal funding makes breakthroughs possible. That’s why the Trump Admin’s reckless NIH and NSF grant cuts hit research institutions like Scripps Institute of Oceanography so hard. I met with fellows and grad students there to hear more about how these cuts have hurt their work.

It was great to tour AiCella & Invetech and see how they’re using AI to make lifesaving cell therapies faster, cheaper, and made in San Diego! This is what American biomanufacturing and responsible use of AI can look like.

I’m so grateful for Element Q, a place built by and for the LGBTQ+ community, where people can get identity-affirming mental health care and heal, grow, and thrive.

It’s hard for everyone to afford the skyrocketing cost of living right now – including our seniors. I had a great time joining some seniors for lunch at the Bayside Community Center to talk about how to bring down costs, stand up to the Trump Administration, and more.

Today, on America’s 250th birthday, I’m thinking about all the work ahead to build a more perfect union. We have a long way to go, and we can’t give up hope or pass the mantle. It’s on all of us to help build a fairer, more just, and thriving country.

It was great to welcome our CA-51 Congressional Art Competition winner, Nicole Yang, to the Capitol and see her piece, titled “Inherited Fear,” hung up alongside art from students across the country! Congratulations, Nicole!

I will keep fighting for the rights, well-being, and safety of all women and girls – including trans women and girls – instead of pitting people against each other and manufacturing fear.

I’m so honored to receive the Champion for Children award from First Focus on Children! We need universal, high-quality child care and early education so all children can grow up safe, nourished, and healthy.

4 years after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, it's never been more clear: we must codify the right to abortion nationwide and fight back with a comprehensive strategy of our own.

Donald Trump is holding up bipartisan legislation to lower your housing costs because he wants to take your ability to vote away. He’s a tyrant – and Republicans shouldn’t let him get away with it.

It was great to join the SD Regional Chamber of Commerce for their annual Congressional Luncheon to hear from local business leaders and share how I’m working to support and strengthen our local workforce and business community.

Just voted NO again on a clean FISA reauthorization. We shouldn’t allow the government to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans — especially with Bill Pulte in charge.

Trump is losing and the facts are not on his side – so he’s targeting people who dare to tell the truth (journalists, content creators, independent media) and is trying to suppress YOUR access to information. But we won’t let these intimidation tactics work.

It was so much fun to meet these pre-school and T-K students at the Little Lemons Early Childhood Education Center in Lemon Grove School District. I’m proud to have brought home over $2 million in federal funding to support this Center and the families it serves.

I just left the Islamic Center of San Diego where I met with some of our Muslim community leaders to chart our path forward to honor the men we lost in the shooting and fully support and protect our Muslim community and their sacred spaces. We’re in this together.

It was so meaningful to join our veterans and community leaders at the Miramar National Cemetery yesterday to recognize Memorial Day and honor everyone who’s made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

Every year, the National Association of Letter Carriers collects non-perishable food left at post offices and in mailboxes and delivers them to food banks and shelters. In San Diego, they partnered with the amazing local nonprofit Heaven’s Windows. So glad to join this effort!

Cathedral High School student Nikki is a hero. Last year, her empathy and courage helped save a stranger from taking their own life on the side of a road. I’m so proud of her and honored to recognize her as a CA-51 Outstanding Youth.

It was great to see so many families and neighbors out and exploring our local small businesses at the 8th annual Kensington Walkabout!

I was so impressed by Helena and Harper’s amazing documentary “This is What Democracy Looks Like,” which won first place in C-SPAN’s annual student documentary competition!! We are so proud to officially recognize them both as Outstanding Youth from CA-51!

Grossmont College Library is currently hosting the “Americans and the Holocaust” traveling exhibit, which examines Americans’ responses to Nazism and war in the 1930s and 40s. Everyone should see it to learn from the past so we can make “never again” a reality.