Washington, Feb. 3 -- Representative Jill Tokuda issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02) released the following statement after voting against a Fiscal Year 2026 government funding package, which includes two weeks of stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS):
"I have supported the vast majority of bipartisan funding agreements in this bill, but I cannot, in good conscience, give a blank check to DHS whose leadership has failed in its most basic responsibility to protect Americans. Just weeks after DHS and ICE agents fatally shot Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, Republicans are demanding continued funding for aggressive immigration enforcement while refusing to confront dead...