Border battles
Since arriving in Congress, Gluesenkamp Perez has sought to distance herself from Democratic leadership, bucking the party line on major issues.
She voted for Republican efforts to block Biden’s student debt relief plan, telling Cascade PBS it would help Washington less than many other states and that she believed society should place more value on non-academic types of education.
Gluesenkamp Perez also teamed up with Republicans on a bill that sought to automatically expel asylum seekers at the border “without further hearing or review” as well as reinstate Trump’s 2018 ”Remain in Mexico” policy, which kept asylum seekers out while they awaited U.S. court dates.
Supporters from across
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