{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-leads-progressive-members-congress-statement-condemning-trump-state", "Rep. Omar Leads Progressive Members of Congress in Statement Condemning Trump State Department\u2019s McCarthyite Attack on Americans\u2019 Free Speech Rights and Collective Punishment of Cubans", "2026-07-23", "2026", "2026-07", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Ilhan Omar", "O000173", "omar.house.gov", "omar", "https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON - Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Peace & Security Taskforce Chair Rep. Ilhan Omar and 10 other CPC members\u2014Representatives Greg Casar, Maxine Dexter, Jes\u00fas \"Chuy\" Garc\u00eda, Jonathan L. Jackson, Jim McGovern, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mark Pocan, Delia C. Ramirez, Rashida Tlaib, and Nydia M. Vel\u00e1zquez\u2014issued the following statement in response to the Trump State Department's release of the 100-page report, Cuba: Capital of 21st-Century Communism:\n\n\u201cTrump appears hellbent on taking America back 70 years to the height of Cold War McCarthyism, when hawkish foreign policy was paired with unsubstantiated accusations of communist subversion and political repression against dissidents at home.\n\n\u201cTrump has repeatedly threatened to take over Cuba and has deployed U.S. military ships to seize fuel vessels attempting to arrive on the island. And yet, in an Orwellian move, this administration now claims it is Cuba carrying out the \u2018assault\u2019 against the United States, by turning \u2018Americans into instruments of their own nation's undoing.\u2019\n\n\u201cWe condemn this report\u2019s attack on Americans\u2019 constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. We denounce this administration\u2019s irresponsible attacks against civil society organizations, activists, journalists, labor leaders, Members of Congress, elected officials, and private individuals based on their advocacy for peaceful foreign policy and social justice at home.\n\n\u201cAnd we stand firmly against this report and other efforts by the Trump Administration to weaponize the federal government against dissent, which is a patriotic tradition. We commit to using our full oversight power as Members of Congress and elected officials to stop the persecution of Trump\u2019s perceived political enemies.\n\n\u201cTrump and Secretary Rubio are intensifying decades of economic war against the very people they say they want to help\u2014all while attacking Americans who oppose the policy. The U.S. blockade deliberately deprives the entire island\u2019s population of adequate food, fuel, and medicine. It is past time for Trump to obey the Constitution and end the dangerous, cruel and illegal naval blockade causing collective punishment against Cuba.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-24T07:30:11Z", "2026-07-24T07:31:13Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-leads-progressive-members-congress-statement-condemning-trump-state"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3578939251601696, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}