{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ramirez-jayapal-and-garcia-urge-trump-administration-respect-brazils-electoral", "Ramirez, Jayapal, and Garc\u00eda Urge the Trump Administration to Respect Brazil\u2019s Electoral Process", "2026-09-25", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "IL", "Delia C. Ramirez", "R000617", "ramirez.house.gov", "ramirez", "https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Yesterday, Congressmembers Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03), Congressmembers Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Jes\u00fas \u201cChuy\u201d Garc\u00eda (IL-04) led 28 colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising serious concerns about the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to undermine the Western Hemisphere\u2019s second-largest democracy ahead of Brazil\u2019s presidential election next month.\n\nIn the letter, the Members of Congress asked Secretary Rubio to confirm whether the administration will commit to respecting Brazil\u2019s electoral process and to recognizing its certified outcome.\n\n\u201cOver the course of President Trump\u2019s second term, we have seen U.S. officials engage in a sustained, multifaceted campaign of interference and destabilization in Brazil,\u201d wrote the members.\n\nLast year, the Trump administration began imposing tariffs and sanctions to pressure Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court over its trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro for his role in an attempted coup, intended to overturn Brazil\u2019s 2022 presidential elections. Recently, the administration designated Brazilian gangs as \u201cforeign terrorist organizations\u201d (FTOs) two days after right-wing presidential candidate Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, Jair Bolsonaro's son, reportedly made such a request to President Trump in the Oval Office.\n\n\u201cRather than helping defend Brazilian democracy, the United States is acting as an agent of interference and destabilization\u2014using diplomatic, economic, and political pressure in ways that risk weakening the country\u2019s democratic institutions, undermining confidence in Brazil's electoral process, and inflicting further damage on our relationship with a strategic U.S. ally and trading partner,\u201d concluded the members.\n\nThe Trump administration\u2019s efforts reflect a deeply troubled pattern of interference in recent electoral processes across Latin America, including Argentina\u2019s midterm elections and the presidential elections in Honduras and Colombia. The pattern risks eroding electorates\u2019 confidence in democratic processes and institutions across the region.\n\nThe letter was also signed by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Reps. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30), Maxine Waters (CA-43), Summer Lee (PA-12), Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-00), Henry C. \u201cHank\u201d Johnson (GA-04),Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), Andr\u00e9 Carson (IN-07), Maxwell Frost (FL-10), Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) Mark Pocan (WI-02), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Greg Casar (TX-35), Nydia M. Vel\u00e1zquez (NY-07), Jim Costa (CA-21), Robert Garcia (CA-42), Jim McGovern (MA-02), Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07), Mike Quigley (IL-05), Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10), Stephen L. Lynch (MA-08), Sylvia R. Garcia (TX-29), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Ro Khanna (CA-17), Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Steve Cohen (TN-09), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14),\n\nThe letter has been endorsed by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), Washington Brazil Office (WBO), the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Latin American Working Group (LAWG), and the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.", 1, "2026-09-26T09:43:57Z", "2026-09-26T09:44:55Z"]], "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://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ramirez-jayapal-and-garcia-urge-trump-administration-respect-brazils-electoral"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5191873535513878, "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"}