He filed H.R. 569 the day after Trump's executive order, and had filed all but the same bill in the two Congresses before that. A baby born to two parents on work visas would not be a citizen. The Supreme Court struck the order down in June. Babin's bill is still the Republican Study Committee's plan.
De La Cruz ran as the outsider against a sitting state legislator. FEC filings show $195,000 from political committees — including the top three House Republican leaders, a dozen members' leadership PACs, and $21,000 from his own sister in Congress.
Two super PACs with deliberately vague names — one funded by an Anthropic-backed nonprofit, one by Coinbase and Ripple — put more than $2.1 million behind a first-time candidate in San Antonio. Their ads never mentioned AI or crypto. His website did.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was booked to headline a May 2 fundraiser for Carlos De La Cruz in San Antonio. De La Cruz called it an honor — in the state where two unvaccinated children had just died of measles.
H.R. 9979, the 'Freedom to Ship Act,' repeals the federal ban on mailing concealable firearms and fines UPS or FedEx $10,000 every time they decline a gun shipment. Three other Republicans signed on.
The budget law that cut Medicaid put $85 million toward moving a space shuttle from Virginia to Houston. The Smithsonian put the real cost close to $380 million. Weber, Cornyn and Cruz responded by asking DOJ to open an investigation.
Eighteen years after Hurricane Ike, the coastal barrier meant to protect Galveston and the Houston Ship Channel has received $5.5 million in federal money against a $35 to $57 billion price tag. Weber has represented that coast for 13 years.
On a Christian radio show in May 2025, the Texas congressman said undocumented immigrants should be flown over their home country and pushed out the door. Then he said: 'I'm not gonna say that in front of the camera.' He already had.
Asked whether the Pulse massacre changed his mind on LGBTQ job protections, the House Rules chairman said Pulse was "a young person's nightclub" that was "mostly Latinos." That same week, his committee killed the protections.