Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-TX) will deliver the Spanish-language Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden‘s State of the Union on Thursday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced De La Cruz’s selection on Wednesday, stating that her journey to Congress “encapsulates the very essence of what it means to live the American dream.”
“Sadly, that dream is slipping away after three years of an open border, runaway inflation, and a nation inviting aggression and projecting weakness on the world stage,” Johnson said.
In 2022, De La Cruz became the first woman, first Latina, and first Republican to represent Texas’s 15th Congressional District. She is the granddaughter of a Mexican farmworker and was raised by a single mother in Brownsville. Her “deep family roots” in the Rio Grande Valley
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