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Rep. Derek Tran was picked to co-lead congressional Democrats’ National Security Task Force, a personal assignment for the Army veteran.
Rep. Derek Tran, D-Calif., joins Morning Joe to discuss the 'Protect Veteran Jobs Act,' which would allow for the reinstatement of any veteran who was removed or dismissed from federal employment since President Trump took office and began indiscriminately purging the federal workforce.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A freshman Democratic congressman is introducing a bill to protect the jobs of veterans working for the U.S. government amid mass firings by the Trump administration, the latest legislative response to the turmoil rippling across federal agencies.
Nearly two months after being officially sworn into Congress, 45th Congressional District Rep. Derek Tran was joined by members of the Cal State Fullerton and Orange County community at the Golleher Alumni House for a ceremonial swearing-in.
Coming into his first term in Congress, the newly elected Democrat will face the uphill battle of opposing Republican control over both chambers of Congress and the presidency.
Orange County officials broke ground on a new affordable housing complex designed to provide permanent housing for low-income veterans, students with families, and individuals and families with special needs.
The Lincoln Avenue Apartments, located at a former commercial property on Lincoln Avenue near Knott Avenue in Buena Park, will feature more than 50 low-cost housing units.
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has wasted no time pushing forward his aggressive immigration agenda, delivering on one of his key campaign promises.
For Orange County’s newest House Democrats, Reps. Dave Min and Derek Tran, that means being thrown into the political deep end, facing tough votes on immigration enforcement right out of the gate.
President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, marking the first legislative win of his second term amid a broader illegal immigration crackdown.
The bill, named for the slain Georgia nursing school student murdered by a Venezuelan citizen in the U.S. illegally, directs federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused, arrested, or who have been convicted of “burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.”
In 1984, volunteers stood outside supermarkets in Orange County, clipboards in hand, helping fellow Vietnamese Americans register to vote.
Van Tran, then a freshman at UC Irvine, was one of them.
Freshman Rep. Derek Tran (D-Calif.) flipped a Republican seat in November by hundreds of votes, a minuscule total which he attributes to his strength in the Vietnamese-American community.
We caught up with Tran to hear how he’s preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the freshman’s take on his opening months in Congress and how Democrats can win back the House.