CAPAC Chair Statement on President Biden's State of the Union

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), issued the following statement on President Biden’s State of the Union Address:

“President Biden’s State of the Union message last night was to finish the job for the American people. It was encouraging to hear the President lay out his plans to invest in working American families, including Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander families, by reinstating the expanded Child Tax Credit, investing in child care, and keeping the cost of prescription drugs down. Additionally, his call for support for providing a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, TPS holders, farm workers, and essential workers, including millions of AAPI immigrants, is a promise to keep our families and communities whole and our economy growing.

“I was also thrilled to see President Biden’s recognition of Brandon Tsay’s heroics on Lunar New Years Eve in the San Gabriel Valley to protect our community from additional mass carnage. And I could not agree more with the President – Congress needs to find courage and act now to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. No community in the country should have to experience the trauma Monterey Park is currently dealing with.

“The President’s concluding remarks about building a democracy that works for everyone were particularly vital for our leaders and the nation to hear. Our democracy thrives when our differences and diversity are viewed and treated as strengths. Since the start of the pandemic, anti-Asian hate violence has escalated, but it’s incumbent on all of us, as the President said, to ‘give hate and extremism in any form no safe harbor.’ CAPAC is proud to stand with the President and the Biden-Harris Administration in that pursuit.”