Defense & Military Families

Congressman Salud Carbajal, representative for the U.S. Western Range at Vandenberg Space Force Base and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, joined Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA-36) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18) to lead a bipartisan call by nearly the entirety of California’s Congressional delegation today urging Governor Gavin Newsom to prioritize investments in… Read more »

Last week, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Congressman Neal Dunn, M.D. (FL-02) joined Senator Marco Rubio (FL) and Senator Ben Ray Luján (NM) to introduce bicameral and bipartisan legislation to designate spaceports like Vandenberg Space Force Base eligible for tax-exempt municipal revenue bonds to incentivize investment in spaceport infrastructure. Projects such as airports and… Read more »

Carbajal just returned from a five-day trip to the region with five other congressional Democrats. Read more »

Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) joined Congressmen Brad Schneider (IL-10) and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and 26 colleagues in voicing support for President Joe Biden’s efforts to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas to bring hostages home and provide a pause in the fighting in Gaza. Israel has agreed to the framework of such a pause but Hamas has so far rejected it. In a letter sent… Read more »

Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) along with Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Mark Takano (CA-39), Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Sean Casten (IL-06), and Becca Balint (VT-AL), released a statement on their recent trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories and outlining changes for future U.S. policy: “What happened in Israel on October 7th was horrifying. On our… Read more »

Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) is urging House Republican leadership to immediately bring the Senate-passed bipartisan national security supplemental aid bill to the floor for a vote, emphasizing its potential to meet the nation’s security challenges and help save lives in the short and long term. Yesterday, Rep. Carbajal – a Marine veteran and senior member of the House Armed… Read more »

Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24), a Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition’s Immigration and Border Security Task Force, announced he will vote against two different political gimmicks deployed by House Republicans to create chaos and do nothing to responsibly tackle the national security challenges facing the United States. Later today, Congressman Carbajal will reject the… Read more »

Today, President Joe Biden signed into law language championed by Congressmen Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Don Bacon (NE-02) and Mike Gallagher (WI-08) to strengthen the cybersecurity practices for the United States’ nuclear weapons system. Reports from the Government Accountability Office published in September 2022 and June 2023 found that the National Nuclear System Administration was… Read more »

Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) is highlighting new authority he delivered in this year’s annual defense policy bill that allows the Space Force to share more of the upkeep costs of their bases and launch ranges with the commercial space companies utilizing U.S. military-owned ranges. As a senior member of the U.S. Armed Service Committee and the representative for the United States… Read more »

Legislation written by House Armed Services Committee member Salud Carbajal (D-CA) and Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) to combat fentanyl trafficking is on the verge of becoming law after passing the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate this week. The Disrupt Fentanyl Trafficking Act, originally introduced by the lawmakers along with Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) in… Read more »