


Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman
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@RepBonnie
Proudly serving the people of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. Proud #BlackWoman. Member @USProgressives Co-Chair @CBWGCaucus. She/her.




JD Vance: "There's a lot of fraud in the federal government. It's unbelievable how much you've been fleeced by your own government."



Codify oversight. Protect our communities.

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: politico.com/news/2026/05/1…


David Venturella, formerly of private prison company Geo Group, will lead ICE. A federal ethics rule generally bars government employees from working on contracts awarded to their former employers for one year, but the Trump admin. granted him a waiver. wapo.st/4ws9BDe

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers. Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country. fortune.com/2026/05/12/lak…


The Washington Post Editorial Board defended Trump's $1 billion White House Ballroom. But according to them, California spending $12 million to provide diapers for newborn babies "infantilizes new parents."

NEW: 1 year after @RepLaMonica’s visit to a detention center led to an ongoing legal battle with the Trump admin (& up to 17 years in prison)… TODAY, she & the 2 colleagues with her that day plan to introduce a bill to strengthen congressional oversight: washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…




Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the Trump administration is “open to all ideas” to ease pain at the pump, including suspending the federal gas tax. nbcnews.com/politics/white…