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After weeks of pushing partisan spending bills that were bound to fail and leading the country to the brink of a government shutdown, Speaker McCarthy finally reversed course and allowed a vote on a bipartisan funding bill that my Democratic colleagues and I have been advocating for. The last-minute bill was passed into law, with more Democratic votes in the House than Republican ones, mere hours before the government was set to shut down.

With less than a week left until a potential government shutdown, Republican infighting in the House has stalled action on legislation to fund the government beginning on October 1^st. Our government should work for the American people, but extremist members of the Republican Party in the House are marching our country toward a government shutdown and insisting on their demands for spending cuts of over 8%.

I’ve been delighted to have spent the past six weeks in the district, engaging with constituents and spending time in the community. We hosted four town halls to discuss some of the issues most important to CA-10, including youth mental health, animal welfare, climate change, and civic engagement. I also met one-on-one with constituents in two rounds of Virtual District Office Hours.

AT A GLANCE

In this Digest, you will find information on:

• Recent town halls Mark hosted;
• Efforts to help end food insecurity in our community; and
• Updates on Mark's legislative efforts.

IN THE COMMUNITY